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Fixes index search with non-latin chars

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This pull request resolves a critical bug affecting the index search functionality, specifically when dealing with non-Latin characters. By refining the search string sanitization logic to properly recognize and process a broader spectrum of Unicode characters, the change significantly improves the system's ability to perform accurate and comprehensive searches across various languages. This ensures that users can effectively search for content regardless of the character set used in their queries.

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  • Improved Multilingual Search: The pull request addresses an issue where the index search failed to process queries containing non-Latin characters, enhancing the system's multilingual capabilities.
  • Regular Expression Update: The regular expression used for sanitizing search strings has been updated to correctly handle a wider range of Unicode characters, including non-Latin alphabets.
  • Unicode Flag Implementation: The re.UNICODE flag has been added to the re.sub function call, ensuring that word (\w) and whitespace (\s) character classes in the regex are interpreted according to the Unicode standard.
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This pull request addresses an issue with searching using non-latin characters by improving the input sanitization regex. The change is a good step forward, correctly using \w with the re.UNICODE flag to support a wider range of characters. My review includes a suggestion to further enhance the robustness of the search functionality by handling whitespace-only or padded search strings.

value = params[1]
# sanitize search string
value = re.sub(r"[^0-9A-Za-z/_\.-]+", "", value)
value = re.sub(r"[^\w\s./\-]+", "", value, flags=re.UNICODE)
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After sanitizing the search string, it's possible for it to contain only whitespace, or have leading/trailing whitespace. This could lead to queries like ' ':* which are valid but likely not what the user intends. It's good practice to strip() the value to handle these cases gracefully. An all-whitespace search would then correctly fall back to '*:*', which is consistent with an empty search. You can chain .strip() to the re.sub() call for a concise solution.

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value = re.sub(r"[^\w\s./\-]+", "", value, flags=re.UNICODE)
value = re.sub(r"[^\w\s./\-]+", "", value, flags=re.UNICODE).strip()

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@giohappy giohappy merged commit d8699c1 into master Dec 1, 2025
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@giohappy giohappy deleted the 13641_indexing_fix_01 branch December 1, 2025 19:50
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