# Search engine and apostrophe : strange behavior

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [July 25, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/search-engine-and-apostrophe-strange-behavior/848432 "2023-07-25T22:13:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/search-engine-and-apostrophe-strange-behavior/848432/1 "2023-07-25T22:13:33Z")

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Server Version#: 1.32.5.7349 (Win 10 x64)  
Player Version#: Plex web Version 4.108.0

The problem is that the search engine is not dealing with apostrophe as it should. Apostrophe should be an optional typographic sign for the search engine : with or without the apostrophe it should show a result.

Tested on a french serie called “L’Effondrement”. The serie is well scraped and I see it in the list of series. The problem is that the search engine really want that you put the apostrophe in the search field otherwise nothing is found :

- Searching for “`effondrement`” → no result (should be OK)
- Searching for “`l effondrement`” → no result (should be OK)
- Searching for “`l'effondrement`” → result OK

This is too restrictive and make difficult to find this content.

Similar test with : “`Falcon et le Soldat de l'hiver`” :

- Searching for “`Falcon et le Soldat de l'hiver`” → result OK (normal in this case)
- Searching for “`Falcon et le Soldat de l' hiver`” or “`Falcon et le Soldat de l 'hiver`” or “`Falcon et le Soldat de l ' hiver`” → no result (should be OK)
- Searching for “`Falcon et le Soldat de l hiver`” → no result (should be OK)
- Searching for “`Falcon et le Soldat de lhiver`” → result OK (should be not OK)
- Searching for “`Falcon et le Soldat de hiver`” → no result (normal in this case)

Here we see that the logic of the search engine is not good with the article `l'` , this should be managed like the article `the` when it’s in the beginning of the title (which means not required to match search result, and it should match with or without apostrophe)

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**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/search-engine-and-apostrophe-strange-behavior/848432/2 "2023-10-23T22:14:27Z")

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