People Directory: Filtering for terms with umlauts in standard elements does not work after adjusting indexing language

People Directory: Filtering for terms with umlauts in standard elements does not work after adjusting indexing language

 Problem

Scenario:

  • User A has a term with an umlaut in a standard Confluence profile element

    • example: term "Bürogestaltung" in the field Department

  • In the People Directory, the field and term are used for filtering

    • example: "Department" as filter, "Bürogestaltung" as value

  • User A should be contained in the search results, but is not

Cause

Most likely, the Confluence indexing language was changed without restarting Confluence.

 Solution

Restarting Confluence should fix the issue (at any time after the language was changed during indexing).

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