Search substring in Contacts
asked 2018-04-01 17:53:16 +0300
1.) How do you search for a name/word/company if you only know a substring? For example, if you don't remember exactly, how your contact was stored:
- "GrillBár Carl -Budapest"
- "GrilBar Karl -Bp. "
- "GrillBár Károly"
- "GlillBàr" (with U+00E0 à c3a0 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE)
SEARCH tries:
- "Bar"
- "Bár"
- "%Bár"
- "*Bár"
- "*b?r"
"*arl " (<< space at the end)
= 0 results :(
It is impossible to memorize 1200 contacts how they were spelled exactly, so one needs to be able to SEARCH with wildcars like: * ?
(not just for word-beginnings)
2.) Also the current "search" does not handle vocabulary-similarities at all:
a = àÀáÁÂÃäÄÅÆ ( especially SMS standards for basic coding like à )
o = oOóÓöÖőŐ ...
ö = őŐ...
ő = öÖ...
More details starting from U+00C0 : http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
So until this is solved searching with wildchars is a must have option but it was impossible to activate it.
Is it implemented at all? (I'm just asking because my old phones from 199x were able to do that, so maybe it's just a localization error?)
IMHO this isn't just a simple "feature-request", but a bug. It makes the whole phonebook app useless.
Strange for first point. As I can search substring. Although I didn't tried all fields.
Filip K. ( 2018-04-01 19:51:10 +0300 )edit@Filip Did you try without the first letter? eg.: Filip > "ilip" (Because yes, if "GrillBar" would be "Grill Bar" with a space, than you could search for "Bar", also other fields, not just names. Except of course if you used any localized char, like: "á" ... and you're searching for "a".) ### Do wildchars working too for you?
PizzaProgram ( 2018-04-02 02:35:24 +0300 )edit@PizzaProgram Yeah. I tried without first letter. But due to import I have most of my contacts with nicks not names. I have many nonASCI names there and it works as it should other than vocabulary-similarities of course
Wildchars doesn't seems to work.
Filip K. ( 2018-04-02 15:25:45 +0300 )edit