CJK - Japanese characters searching problem

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WishingStars
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CJK - Japanese characters searching problem

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I have searching problem with Japanese characters where the search doesn't differentiate hiragana and katakana and the extra strokes/circles on them. an example below

search term:はな  (flower or person's name, in hiragana)
❌matches 1:バナナ   (banana, in katakana with two additional small strokes at right top corner)
❌matches 2:ハナ    (hana, in katakana)
❌matches 3:パナマ   (Panama, the country, in katakana with additional circle at right top corner)
❌matches 4:ばな    (bana, in hiragana)
🟢matches 5:はな    (the target, in hiragana)


I had checked Search Modifiers and Searching to try whole word (rid of #1 and #3, but not their variants), enable case sensitive (does nothing)...etc, but nothing solved the problem

below only helped when the search term is purely in hiragana or katakana but strokes variations results still show up. when search term has both hiragana and katakana, then I get many completely unrelated results
using

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regex:[\p{Hiragana}]
regex:[\p{Katakana}]
void
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Re: CJK - Japanese characters searching problem

Post by void »

Please enable match diacritics under the Search menu.
WishingStars
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Re: CJK - Japanese characters searching problem

Post by WishingStars »

void wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 12:27 am Please enable match diacritics under the Search menu.
thank! that solved both hira vs kata and extra stroke problems
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