if I type "C. 30 B1" without quotation marks I don't get a hit for
https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIC00030B1
whose title is "Southern doorjamb of the main shrine of Po Nagar (C. 30 B1)"
however, if I do use quotation marks, I do get a hit.
from the prose description, I don't think the user can be expected to understand that quotation marks are necessary to get a hit for such a string. I am led to guess that spaces do not count as characters in the rule "Searching for strings that contain less than three characters is not possible". but the relevance of space as escape characters is only explained with regard to search with multiple parameters. it might be better if spaces did not count as escape characters in case of simple string search.
anyhow, I find the prose explanation of the search interface too long/complicated, and hence recommend for to be be replaced by an interface with buttons to select search options.
if I type "C. 30 B1" without quotation marks I don't get a hit for
https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIC00030B1
whose title is "Southern doorjamb of the main shrine of Po Nagar (C. 30 B1)"
however, if I do use quotation marks, I do get a hit.
from the prose description, I don't think the user can be expected to understand that quotation marks are necessary to get a hit for such a string. I am led to guess that spaces do not count as characters in the rule "Searching for strings that contain less than three characters is not possible". but the relevance of space as escape characters is only explained with regard to search with multiple parameters. it might be better if spaces did not count as escape characters in case of simple string search.
anyhow, I find the prose explanation of the search interface too long/complicated, and hence recommend for to be be replaced by an interface with buttons to select search options.