search bar on blog is case sensitive in Russian

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  noteasyenglish · Member · Nov 29, 2016 at 9:17 am

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  Hello everyone!

  I truly do enjoy my time playing around and tinkering with the wordpress.com, not to mention the platform is just what the doctor ordered for smooth and convenient blogging without delving into the depths of php, databases and what have you.

  For all that, I happened to stumble upon a rather nasty snag concerning “search” functionality on my website.

  Whenever I run search inquiries in Russian, the search engine seems to be pretty case sensitive for comfort.

  In the first instance, I run a word “гарри” in lowercase, and… it yields no results whatsoever. Have a look:
  https://ilyalemieux.com/?s=%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8

  Whereas, in the second instance, I run a word “Гарри” in uppercase… Voilà, the search bar works its magic:
  https://ilyalemieux.com/?s=%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8

  As for the search in English, it works both ways no problems. Have a look:
  https://ilyalemieux.com/?s=harry
  https://ilyalemieux.com/?s=Harry

  Is there any chance to somehow fix / have fixed this little nasty snag?

  Thanks for all your time and help in advance !

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