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 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 indexing language of Confluence was changed without performing a restart of Confluence.

 Solution

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

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