No search result when putting in german umlauts

[FL0RIAN]

If a user searches (frontend) for words with german umlauts like ä, ö, etc. no results are given back.

Do you have any solution?

Thanks.

[Mats]

Try changing the collation in PHPMyAdmin for the fields you wan't to search (or all for that matter).

SO link

[mjut]

I am experiencing the same issue – changing the collation did not fix it. But maybe it is something different?

When searching for Lüneburg the word is being found in all body-fields (textarea) but not in title-fields (the system generated text field).
Replacing the Ü with U, I'll get the desired results. 

Here comes the weird behavior: 
When searching vor üneburg (umlaut it the beginning of the word) all results with "Lüneburg" in the title-field are being found and listed!!! Isnt that weird?
I did look into the database: all tables are set to utf8_general_ci. Changing them to utf8_unicode_ci or even utf8mb4_unicode_ci did not change a thing. 

I am not sure, where to look into next?  

[mjut]

Alright. It wasn't a MySQL-issue at all! 

In my search-template I've been using the selector fields incorrectly. I wanted a page-referenece field to be searched and listed. in the selectors I called "pagereference" what I need to do was putting "pagereference.title" into the selectors!

Without putting *title after the field, the results were based on searching the url. That led to results I wasnt expecting...