Search for listing fails when using apostrophe

[vjl]

It’s bug reporting weekend…macOS 14.3.1 and GS 9.7.5. I have magazines and books for sale on my eBay store that I have listed in GS. Some have sold, some are still selling. They are Reader’s Digest. But searching for “Reader’s” [without the quotes] results in no hits. Searching “Digest” results in the selling and sold listings showing up.

So it seems one can not use an apostrophe in the Find/Search field when searching listings.

[kristian]

I just tried it here in GarageSale 9.8beta but it seems to work fine for me. Do you maybe use too specific search settings? (click on the magnifying glass icon)

[vjl]

Using the production version of GS - 9.7.5, the search results are empty. See attached screenshots

[vjl]

An update. I confirmed that Reader’s Digest is using the apostrophe character. But searching for Reader`s [the quote that is near the US ESC key], brings the results up just fine.

I did this because I noticed the font in the search field displays the ’ as being straight up and down, but the character in the listing is slanted to the left.

I also did a search for Country’s and that worked.

I will note that when using the ` quote [the one by the ESC key], it seems to ignore the ’ character as it found listings with Readers [eg: not Reader’s].

However I can’t explain how/why the search for Country’s came up with the correct results when Reader’s didn’t. The quote marks used in all the titles are the same.

Another clue:

If I search Reader’ [the correct apostrophe, but without the letter s], then GS finds both Reader’s Digest and Readers. So something isn’t being properly escaped behind the scenes.