Title: Odd search filtering Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Odd search filtering * Resolved [sigurarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sigurarm/) * (@sigurarm) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/) * Hi. I just wanted to report an issue I get when search filtering in my table. My table has 57 rows and has a lot of Icelandic names, which means accented characters non-English ones etc. But that does not seem to be the cause of this issue. * Description: * Searching for my name: Sigurður Ármannsson. We have another with same name and a few with Sigurðs… as fathers name (aka family name). * The odd thing is that both Sigurður are filtered out at: sigu It does not matter if I change the name to Sigurdur Armannsson, still filtered out. But if I revert my name (all are in the same field) to Armannsson Sigurdur or Ármannsson Sigurður it is included in the search all the way. * Same goes for Þór and Þórðarson, Þórðardóttir. Soon as I type more than þó some of the names drop out but in the end, with Þórðar.. I still have two names found. * It’s odd and something you might want to look into. * You can try this out at [http://font.is/simaskra](http://font.is/simaskra) and I can add or change fields for experiment if needed. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495326) * Hi, * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble. * I can reproduce this on your site (and I think I have seen this issue before), but there’s nothing that I can do directly about this at this time, unfortunately. This filtering is a feature of the external DataTables JavaScript library from [http://www.datatables.net](http://www.datatables.net). So, I’m not the developer of that library, but only use it in TablePress. I will therefore forward your report to the developer of DataTables. Maybe he has an idea why this is happending and knows a way to fix this. * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [sigurarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sigurarm/) * (@sigurarm) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495327) * Ok, no problem. I am very patient and I think your plug-in is great. They probably know about this failure but if not, they can play with my small table. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495335) * Hi, * thanks for your patience! * I’ve reported this here: [https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/issues/156](https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/issues/156) * If it can be fixed in DataTables, that fix will land in TablePress soon as well. Other than that, there’s nothing I can do about this now. * Best wishes, Tobias * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress) here in the plugin directory. Thanks! * Thread Starter [sigurarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sigurarm/) * (@sigurarm) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495343) * Sure. Good luck. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495424) * Hi, * thanks, I really appreciate it! I hope that we can fix that issue soon. * Best wishes, Tobias * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495522) * Hi, * Allan, the developer of DataTables took at look at your table, and as it seems, the problem is caused by some invisible character behind the “Sig”: [https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/issues/156](https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/issues/156) * Can you try to remove those (probably by `g­u` with the keyboard and typing them again, to make sure that no such character slips in again)? * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [sigurarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sigurarm/) * (@sigurarm) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495523) * Ok. I found it! * I finally realised by copying Sigurður from the webpage in Safari into BBEdit that it appears there as Sig-urður. So, it had to be in WordPress, not the actual text I input into the table. Because of this I disabled WP-Typography plug in and all is well. Actually I tried to activate it again and it is still fine, but possibly it takes some time to check all pages. But at least this is the matter. * Thank you both for your effort to solve this. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495528) * Hi, * awesome! Great to hear that you found the cause! 🙂 It’s weird that that other plugin adds invisible characters, but one never knows… * Best wishes, Tobias * Thread Starter [sigurarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sigurarm/) * (@sigurarm) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495529) * Hi again. * The main purpose of WP-Typography is to add hyphenation to the text in the content to make text flow in a more beautiful way and also to allow text to be fully justified. That’s why it adds the hyphenation marks. * I was able to bypass the marks when I searched in the tables by adding a space where the marks where, but that was only because I knew where they were. * I will miss that plugin but TablePress is more important for me at the moment. * Thanks for TablePress and your time. * Regards, * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495530) * Hi, * ah, ok. Thanks for the info! I guess for hyphenation, this does make sense, but yeah, not so much in tables. * Best wishes, Tobias Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Odd search filtering’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/tablepress/assets/icon.svg?rev=3192944) * [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/reviews/) ## Tags * [filter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filter/) * 10 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-search-filtering/#post-3495530) * Status: resolved