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EnricoBeyer
Nov 17, 2023Brass Contributor
Inaccurate person search possible with umlauts in the name?
Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to find employees in the People Search who have umlauts in their name without explicitly searching for them. So that the People Search also returns i...
MikaelSvenson
Microsoft
Nov 17, 2023EnricoBeyer are you talking about searching for people in product UX or via an API?
- EnricoBeyerNov 17, 2023Brass Contributor
Hi Mikael,
thank you for your fast response. I'm talking about product UX and use a Search Webpart like the PNP Search Webpart to configure the search query. If it would work in the Standard SharePoint Search it would be great too. 🙂
I guess then it would be a feature request. I'm wondering if it may work with something within the KQL part? Or is it only possible via API request?- MikaelSvensonNov 17, 2023
Microsoft
If you use SharePoint search and enable phonetic at the API level it works as expected
enablephonetic=true
In product UX o->oe both return the same person when I test.. if I use ö it seems to not work. but ø works.
Log a ticket 🙂