📄 Accept Non-English Characters in File Search

Accept Non-English Characters in File Search

The File Search feature now supports non-English characters as keywords, which makes it easier to search for files in different languages. This support for non-English characters also apply to content-based search.

This article provides an overview of non-English character support in File Search.


Functionality

Users can now enter search terms using the following supported characters:

  • Diacritics and accented characters
  • Characters from other writing systems, such as:
    • Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
    • Korean
    • Greek
    • Arabic
    • Cyrillic
    • Japanese (Kanji and Kana)
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These special characters are not supported as search inputs:

  • + (Plus sign)
  • = (Equal sign)
  • _ (Underscore)
  • / (Slash)
  • , (Comma)
  • . (Period)
  • ' (Apostrophe)
  • - (Hyphen)
  • [ (Left square bracket)
  • ] (Right square bracket)
  • ; (Semicolon)
  • : (Colon)
  • " (Quotation mark)
  • < (Less-than sign)
  • > (Greater-than sign)
  • ? (Question mark)
  • ! (Exclamation mark)
  • @ (At sign)
  • # (Hash, pound)
  • $ (Dollar sign)
  • % (Percent sign)
  • ^ (Caret)
  • & (Ampersand)
  • * (Asterisk)
  • ( (Left parenthesis)
  • ) (Right parenthesis)
  • { (Left curly bracket)
  • } (Right curly bracket)
  • | (Vertical bar)
  • ~ (Tilde)