More problems with search function

[Fabien]

In French (and in probably in others lnaguage), we can have the elision of an article if the next word begins with a vowel. For exemple, the word "audience" is a feminine world and in a sentence, I write "l'audience…" instead of "la audience". But of course, il the article doesn't end with vowel, there is no elision. So I write "une audience".

On my blog, if i do a search with the word "audience", I get one result (the text with "une audience"). I know this answer is false. If I do a search with the world "l'audience", I also get one result: the missing article (the text with "l'audience")!

But of course, no one speaking French language will do the two searches! So she will miss a part of the information.

A solution?
Thanks, Fabien

PS: I have another problem with the search function since several monthes that is not solved. My blog is not a sort of diary, but a technical discussion that is a learning tool for my students. They use it as a reference. I have already said that the search function in Serendipity lacks of important functions and I miss them. It's annoying, but the fact that the existing function doesn't give corect results is a huge problem for me.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

As I believe, this is a restriction of the MySQL fulltext search. Do you have the latest MySQL version? I believe some things like this have been optimized in later MySQL versions.

I agree that it would be nice if someone could work on improving the search function with things you suggest!

Best regards,
Garvin

[Fabien]

MySql: 5.0.32