[Typo3-dev] EXT: indexed_search - problems & solutions (to kasper)

[Martin-no$pam-Kutschker]

Rene Suthoelder wrote:
> my question:
> 
> the only reference to german umlauts i found in your source code was this
> (in file \ext\indexed_search\class.indexer.php)
> ============
> [snipp]
> 
> class tx_indexedsearch_indexer {
> 
> [snipp]
> 
>  var $convChars=array(
>   "ÁÉÚÍÄËÜÖÏÆØÅ",
>   "áéúíâêûôîæøå"
> 
> [snipp]
> ============
> 
> i'm not a programmer at all, but i think this maps capital letters to their
> corresponding small letters.
> as you can see, the german letters are not mapped correctly, since Ä becomes
> â. i changed this, and voila: searching äpfel returned a match (and as we
> all know: an apple a day keeps sorrow away!)

Seems you're right.

Anyway, for 3.6 the class (and others!) should use 
t3lib_cs::conv_case($charset,$string,$case).

Masi