Searches on titles containing an Apostrophe ?bug?

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Just ran into this situation today. I was receiving reports that searches on movie titles, directors and actors was “broken”. So I cleaned bundles & re-indexed before I started looking into it. Everything appeared to be working UNTIL I searched on the title IT’S COMPLICATED. Since I cannot insert an apostrophe in the plex search, I left it off. I was getting no results. Searching only on COMPLICATED got me a good result. Honestly I don’t know if it’s always worked that way, but I think it begs the question of how the server should look at titles with apostrophe’s. I would have thought that characters not available on the “search-pad” would be ignored when trying to match a search.

It seems to work for me in Plex Web. My server is on Linux. There may be a small chance that that makes a difference.

Which app are you trying to search in?

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On any TV using the Plex App. Searching on the computer isn’t the same as using the Plex app on a TV. It works ok on the computer. I’d still question the thought process when searching on a computer. I think that ignoring things such as apostrophe’s, dashes and comma’s would be the better choice. Lets give the search a little “fuzziness”.

This will be improved shortly.

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