Re: [Summary-Talk] Searching reports for filenames with extended

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/24/03 6:31 PM John Burwell (john.burwell.lists@galvnews.com) wrote:

>So that I can pre-filter search queries to replace 'bad' characters 
>with a question mark, what are the other characters? What's the 
>governing issue here?

There are two things happening, CGI argument decoding of the search 
string as encoded by the browser and characters that have special meaning 
to the search code. "+" and "&" have special meaning to the CGI argument 
decoder, while "~", "'", "?", "*", and "\" have special meaning to the 
search code. Any of the search code specials can be prefixed with a "\" 
to get a match for the regular character. I intended that you be able to 
use CGI encoding of "+" and "&" ("%2B" and "%26" respectively), which the 
browser ought to do automatically, to search for the regular character, 
but there is a bug in Summary that is currently preventing that from 
working.

Jason

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