How To Enable 1-Character Sitewide Search For Chinese Customers
Recently, we received a complaint from a Chinese customer who was looking for eye care products on our website. Instead of providing them with a list of all of our products with the word "eye" in it, she was confronted with an error message stating that the search needed to be a minimum of three characters.
Well, in Chinese, this "character" means eye:
眼
Obviously, the search component needed to be re-configured to reduce the length of the search string to a single (1) character.
Here's how I did that:
Then click on Configuration
Change Minimum word length to index to 1 and then click on Save configuration.
After that, Chinese search with one character worked!
CAUTION: Reducing the Minimum word length to index value to 1 character can create a LOT of search indexing and may affect the performance of your Drupal website. Implement with care.
Great Success!
Here's how I did that:
Then click on Configuration
Change Minimum word length to index to 1 and then click on Save configuration.
After that, Chinese search with one character worked!
CAUTION: Reducing the Minimum word length to index value to 1 character can create a LOT of search indexing and may affect the performance of your Drupal website. Implement with care.
Great Success!
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