Search does not support non-English languages

[taills]

Unable to search for Chinese Keywords

[weihanglo]

mdBook uses elasticlunr.js for offline searching under the hood. And according to this issue weixsong/elasticlunr.js#53, it seems that there is no plan to support searching in other languages.

[hysencn]

it is a good tools. I love it.

We, more than 1 million peoples, have the same issue. could you help on it?
need chinese search support.

or, could we search chinese with google?
How to do it?

[futurist]

For Chinese like languages, maybe it's not suitable for local search, instead could using some service like algolia, which also being used in vuepress

[cxumol]

Yes, it is highly possible to add searching in Chinese characters.

1. elasticlunr is the search engine used by mdBook
2. Go to elasticlunr official documentation, read the section Other Languages. With just 3 more lines of code, elasticlunr can be used with other languages.
3. The Chinese language support of lunr-languages is PRed but not yet merged.
4. Alternatively, suggested by comments on Need Chinese support MihaiValentin/lunr-languages#32, Japanese language can be used as a workaround. That's because this line has covered 一-龠, which is a usual range including most Chinese characters on the Unicode table.

[bigdogs]

Any new progress for this issue?

[Sciroccogti]

Any new progress for this issue?

There is a PR #1496 working on it but needs help.

[wc7086]

Replacing elasticlunr.js with https://github.com/ajitid/fzf-for-js may allow this issue to be resolved.