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ticksgt
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Please support partial-match search function like 1Password 7

Good evening. Partial-match search seems to be disabled since 1Password 8. This looks like forward-match. I'm Japanese and Japanese is a language without the ability to separate words (Chinese ...
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volts
Super Contributor
4 years ago

ticksgt yes, this is also a significant issue in English and other languages. You gave perfect examples.

I’d like to learn about the lack of word separation and additional impact for Japanese.

I find the technical explanation for the change in behavior to be interesting but unsatisfying. It’s a distraction - storing strings as UTF8 doesn’t prevent partial marching, the choice of search engine does.