does not support substring search

Bug #1045224 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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Canonical System Image
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Ubuntu Geonames
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Bug Description

The following query
http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Pari%

doesn't return Paris

The consequence is that main cities not found by typing the first letters. It's happening in Ubiquity in the timezone selection screen or on the phone in the "Add City" list of the clock.

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

I understand this is highly important, as Quantal is changing to french as the default locale.
As a workaround for now, you can type "Paris" to get the French capital.

Changed in ubuntu-geonames:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1045224

tags: added: iso-testing
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This isn't specific to Paris. It seems http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com does not support substrings at all, I tried "Londo", "Berli", "Augsb", etc. But it does seem to cut on non-ASCII Unicode characters, which is even worse: E. g. http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Berl delivers "Berlīne".

summary: - search string 'Pari' doesn't return 'Paris'
+ does not support substring search
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-geonames:
importance: Low → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → Confirmed
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