{"section":"known-issues","requestedLocale":"en","requestedSlug":"some-special-characters-are-not-stripped-from-product-searches-or-indexing","locale":"en","slug":"some-special-characters-are-not-stripped-from-product-searches-or-indexing","path":"docs/en/known-issues/Intelligent Search/some-special-characters-are-not-stripped-from-product-searches-or-indexing.md","branch":"main","content":"## Summary\n\nSome special characters are not completely stripped from the searched keywords or product indexing, which may affect searches in some specific scenarios.\n\nThe known characters that lead to this scenario are commas (`,`), dots (`.`), and colons (`:`). Others are usually ignored and don't generate problems.\n\nWhile registering a product, commas and dots at the end of words are removed while indexing the product, but if in the middle of a word, they are kept. Keywords are split by spaces.\n\nWhile searching, colons are a reserved value and will invalidate the whole text query.\n\n## Simulation\n\nFor commas and dots, a product field that has a value like comma-separated keywords like `\"car,specialbrand,blue\"` will be read as a single word. Searching for `specialbrand` won't find this product.\n\nFor colons, a product with the name `\"red wine: special version\"` can be found by searching by `wine`, but searching by `wine: special version` won't work. The whole search will be invalid, and no text filters will be applied.\n\n## Workaround\n\nFor commas and dots, a space after the character is required to split the keywords.\n\nFor a search using colons, there's no workaround."}