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907795562 MDU6SXNzdWU5MDc3OTU1NjI= 265 Using enable_fts before search term 36287 open 0     1 2021-06-01T01:43:34Z 2023-04-01T17:27:18Z   NONE  

Many thanks for the sqlite-utils suite of utilities. Has made my life much much easier. I used this to create a table and enable FTS. All works fine. The datasette utility detects FTS and shows a text box. Searching for a term using that interface works well.

However, when I start to use features by following https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html section "3. Full-text Query Syntax" I seem to run into issues that I suspect is due to escape_fts wrapper function.

As an example, if i search for the term "^குகை"on the text box in datasette it produces 140 results. However, when i tweak the query produced by datasette to not use "escape_fts" it produces 5 results.

Similarly, when I try to restrict the search to a single column in FTS using a spec like {title : ^குகை} it returns no rows. The same thing pulls results when used without escape_fts. The text in the table is in Tamil language and the search term is a Tamil word.

... where posts_fts match escape_fts(:search) vs

... where posts_fts match (:search)

Any ideas why? How can I get the benefits of both escaping as well as utilizing different facets of providing / controlling search terms? Thanks.

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