P: always case sensitive for extended characters: øæå ÆØÅ
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I am teaching Lightroom in my local Photoclub, and we discovered something we think is a bug.
Lightroom is case sensitive for a-Z, but in Norway we have 3 more letters. æøå og ÆØÅ. And these letters are treated as special characters.
When I try to search for keyword, I have to search with correct case.
This is very annoying. It will be the same for Danish users.
Best regards,
Tom Jarane
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However, searching still doesn't properly ignore case. E.g. doing "Any Searchable Field Contains б" doesn't match a photo containing "Б" in its caption field.
Tested in CC 2015.12 / OS X 10.12.6.
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Indeed. The LR plugin SDK's function LrStringUtils.lower() is to supposed to return the lower-case version of a string, but it does so only for ASCII letters. E.g. LrStringUtils.lower ("Б") returns "Б", not "б".
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As a programmer, I can only guess that there's something wrong with routines that Lightroom uses for comparing words. Obviously only (ancient) 7 bit US-ASCII character set is taken account in incase sensitive comparison and all other characters are treated like a different characters.
I don't know why only few bug reports exists. Perhaps most users doesn't realize what really is wrong and just tries to live with a bug when it troubles.
(for making searches work, one can always add lower case version of keyword to synonyms).
However, this doesn't help with keyword list's filtration.
This bug should be relative easy to fix... For those who uses language that is written in some form of latin alphabets.
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Rytis Umbrasas
Lithuania
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Greetings. I use Lightroom classic as a database for vintage photos of my community. Being in Greece, I use Greek wording. Example: Donkey in Greek, is Γαϊδούρι, Γάιδαρος, Γαϊδουράκι.
In English, whether I search for 'Donkey' or 'donkey' the same results appear.
Not in Greek!
For Lightroom, γάϊδαρος, Γάϊδαρος, Γάιδαρος, γάιδαρος, ΓΑΪΔΑΡΟΣ (which are pronounced the same) are 5 different results! The main problem is Lightroom not only does not speak Greek 🙂 , it does not 'know' the Greek Alphabet, especially NOT to make a distiction between capital and lower case letters.
As the tagging was done over a period of years (I have ~28.000 photos in the database), with faces and subjects, I would say I have a little problem. Which I did not have with Picasa, the application I started with, a long time ago.
Any suggestion, apart fron redoing the tagging, is welcome.
Thank you.
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It's a very old bug that's never been fixed, unfortunately. To reproduce on LR 13.5 / Mac OS 14.6.1 and Windows 11:
1. Assign the keyword Γάϊδαρος to a photo.
2. In the Library Filter bar, do "Text: Keywords <operator> γάϊδαρος". This table shows which operators correctly ignore case on Mac and Windows:
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Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with this existing Bug: