Re: [Tracker] [BUG] can't search for filenames starting with numbers

[Jan Claeys <lists janc be>]

Op zaterdag 02-12-2006 om 15:47 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Jamie
McCracken:
> Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > Description
> >         It seems that tracker-search is not able to find any file with a
> >         filename pattern [0-9]*
[...]

> Im afraid that was deliberate
>
> we try and discriminate between worthless words (mostly junk) and useful 
> ones.
>
> For our parser to correctly discriminate an indexable word it must start 
> with a utf-8 alpha character or underscore - all others are presumed 
> junk including those that start with numbers.

Hm, I understand why you did this, but what if people want to search for
postal codes, numerical dates, ISBN numbers, bank accounts, ...?


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Jan Claeys