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Orava Orava August 14, 2016 August 14, 2016 at 12:46:05 PM UTC link Permalink

If I want to find "What is your name?" and I search that, Tatoeba doesn't display any results. If I type "What is your name" it finds the sentence "What is your name?". Maybe this could be changed to improve the usability of the website.

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AlanF_US AlanF_US August 14, 2016 August 14, 2016 at 1:43:10 PM UTC link Permalink

This is a known issue. If you look at the help for search (http://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/arti...text-search#), it tells you that you can't use ? or ! in searches the way they are used in sentences because they have special purposes for our search engine. We've talked about stripping ? or ! from strings under certain circumstances, but for now you should leave them out unless you are trying to use them for their special purposes.