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Improve the ability to search chat history for Asian regional languages, such as Chinese and Japanese. Telegram's chat history search function is based on words, and is suitable for languages such as English and Russian that are separated by spaces. But for languages that do not use spaces for word segmentation, you need to match the entire sentence to get the search results, which makes the search function of some languages almost unusable. I hope Telegram can improve this feature so that it can search languages that do not use spaces to separate words.
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Therefore I have a proposal: just split search function into 2 parts: first is the server-side search that is exactly the same as the current search; then there is this client-side search, which enables user to use the computational power of their own devices to search for partial text in the data that has bee synced to their devices (maybe put up a remider that you will only be able to search for what is already been synced to your device, any chat history that is only on the cloud will not be searched). Then give us a toggle to switch between those 2. It is a compromise from both sides that I think will satisfy most people.
Whether the devs adopt my idea or not, please make this search function revamp a priority, all the affected users will be tremendously grateful!
When I am searching for text in Chinese or Japanese, I get almost no result back, as entire sentences are written with no spaces in between words. My experience with Korean is a lot better, as they DO use spaces to break up words, but they don't break up everything. Most notably, (I guess I can only write in English here,,, words in brackets are expressed as a single, unbroken chain of character in Korean)
BE verb is expressed through a suffix added to the noun itself
[Airplane is] flying
Some compund nouns are not separated by spaces
[Airplane ticket]
In this scenario, searching for ”airplane” will return neither of those examples.
....except, that it SOMETIMES does, and I cannot figure out why only SOME of those are returned when searched. All of this ends up giving the users a very inconsistent search experience
I have two available suggestions for the search engine: overhead the engine, search for characters directly; or do not overhead the search engine, add the invisible spaces between Chinese Japanese and Korean characters.