[silva-dev] Silva 0.9.2 Unicode Error using search

[Samuel Schluep]

Dear Developers

To search for Non-ASCII Characters with 'xxx/public/search' (and to ban the
famous 'Error Value: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)') the
Formulator form 'Silva/views/public/search_form.form'  needs some
modifications: set the '<unicode type="int">0</unicode>'-fields to '1'.

Bye the way, I have managed to use integers with metadata and search. I use
the 'FieldIndex'. It took me some time to find out, that I should delete the
old index and reinitialize the metadata set if I change an index-type.
Otherwise the old index remained.

Regards Sam

> Thank you for your hint, how to get a search form, in the 'Re:
> [Silva-general] architectural advice'-mail. I tried it out and I am very
> happy about this feature.
>
> Unfortunately it does not work for special characters: I get a
UnicodeError
> if my search key contains German-Umlaute (ä, ö, ü). I get this error with
> 0.9.2b and 0.9.2. I hope there is some fix for this problem.
>
> Cheers
> Sam