Searching is not useful in logography systems (mostly non-Latin writing systems, e.g. CJK) languages
searching in Chinese https://f-droid.org/zh_Hans/packages/fr.masciulli.drinks/ has a summary:
搜索并显示鸡尾酒配方
https://search.f-droid.org/?q=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&lang=zh_Hans (搜索
i.e. search
) finds it. but it doesn't appear in https://search.f-droid.org/?q=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2+%E9%85%8D%E6%96%B9&lang=zh_Hans (搜索 配方
i.e. search recipe
)
Why non-latin searching is difficult
in one sentence, non-latin languages don't use space to split words, so no automatic tokenization
Edited by proletarius101