Author Topic: Searching for contacts with non-English names (Read 1378 times)

eggtart · March 27, 2010, 09:22:35 pm

When registering a new member, I need to enter a contact's name in the "Select Contact" field. That field has some javascript attached to it such that it will try to locate a contact with every key press. This works fine when the contact's name is in English. But if the name is in, say, Chinese, the search will fail, and I can't find any other way to enter the contact's name.

This can be a problem cos a lot of fields are using this kind of searching mechanism. E.g. when defining a relationship.

Thanks

eggtart · March 28, 2010, 08:23:28 am

One possible reason is that the js function was called at the wrong word boundary for double byte characters. One way to get around this is to append a "%" to the end of the search string.

Cheers

Michał Mach · March 29, 2010, 07:28:28 am

Can you file an issue with detailed description on how to reproduce it and example data (issues.civicrm.org)? Seems like we should take a closer look at it, most probably in 3.3. If you provide a patch, that might help including the fix in earlier version.

Thanks,
m

eggtart · March 30, 2010, 07:52:31 pm

My solution to this is
a) Ask the users to enter an extra space after the search term, e.g. "陳大 ". This is to force the js to perform the ajax search.
b) Change AJAX.php to strip off the trailing space.

I think doing b) probably would not hurt other languages. So this can be a quick fix for the next release.

I have also changed sort_name to display_name in AJAX.php. This is more appropriate for Chinese name display.

Thanks!

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