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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

I don't think that article is relevant. Windows Search uses a full-text method similar to 1Password's, and what is being requested from 1Password is an improved partial-text matching ability. Windows has a complicated relationship with UTF and internal represenation of text, and the text-file-with-BOM weirdness is largely limited to Windows itself.

But it does point out that Search Is Hard, and Text Character Encoding Is Hard. :-)

This is fun:
https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html