Search function does not find Portuguese names

Question

Hi,

we have many Portuguese colleagues, but it is not possible to find them when not using the Portuguese Umlaut. This means, if a user searches for "Joao", search results do not contain information on "João". Is it possible to make the search function tolerant to accented characters?

THX

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Franziska Leugner

There are at least 2 suggestions to add this for server also:

JQL search for @mentions

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-27594

Ability to search for content by user @mention

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-29412

Franziska Leugner_hhvqt9 · Answer

Hi @Bill Sheboy : Thanks a lot, actually solution below is exactly what I have been looking for. But it is related to Cloud, I need a solution for Server. Any plan to have that also available for Server?

Ability to @mention search for users with special characters in their name

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-69624

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Franziska Leugner -- Welcome to the Atlassian community!

There are several open suggestions to add special character support to search, including examples below.  You may review these and vote for them.  If you are looking for something different you may add another suggested improvement.

Enable to search issues by special characters

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-40917

Escaping special characters in JQL search doesn't work

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-62859

Ability to @mention search for users with special characters in their name

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-69624

Thank you, and best regards,

Bill