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.
In addition, for Latin languages, search might benefit from some changes, especially when it comes to accents (circumflex, acute, grave, etc...). This is not exactly the same issue, but search related as well. For now, searching for a word without accents doesn’t return instances with accents.
Nabi
Also for persian language.
Mobby
Although I'm not affected by this issue, I strongly believe that search feature needs to be improved for such locales.
We have it already, but yeah it needs to improved. In whole telegram search needs more improvement.
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I am not entirely sure if this problem is related to space usage. I've had issues while searching in Korean (which utilizes spaces), as well as Chinese and Japanese. The problem might be double-byte character set.
In fact, all languages have this problem, even numbers (see here: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/7096) because telegram does not support partial searches. In English situation ,this problem is not obvious because there are spaces between each word (if you search part of the word, it remains unsearchable). However, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese are each paragraph as a partition, therefore, making the search almost unusable
Eana Hufwe
Basic word segmentation based on spaces and mere stemming for only English is definitely not enough for a globalizing platform like Telegram! We need to see this happen!
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Even if we can use any bot like @Findinchannelbot to do this, it is so difficult.
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https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/564
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/1562
https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/629