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Jetpack Search - Superscripted Text Not Found
- Dominant language
- PHP
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Description
### Impacted plugin
Jetpack
### Quick summary
Creating a new issue for this closed bug: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/37646 since it is still reproducible.
Superscripted text cannot be found in search. The issue was reproducible only on Simple site.
### Steps to reproduce
1. On a Simple site, create a new post or page with superscript text and non-superscript text.
2. Search for a text snippet that includes the superscripted text.
3. Note that the post is not found.
4. Search for a text snippet without superscripted text.
5. Note that the post is found.
Screen recording:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3a91ed40-b9ee-46c0-97c5-4c81820f4490
### Site owner impact
Between 20% and 60% of the total website/platform users
### Severity
Moderate
### What other impact(s) does this issue have?
_No response_
### If a workaround is available, please outline it here.
_No response_
### Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)
Simple
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue on a Simple site using the listed steps, then trace Jetpack Search's handling of post content containing superscript text. Done means a search for a snippet that includes superscripted text finds the post, while the existing non-superscript search behavior remains intact.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100