"Search people" not working with non-english queries

[krin-san]

The bug

When filtering a list of "People" on https://BASE_URL/people web page, only special character queries or queries with English characters show results. Queries in a different language or with language-specific characters return no results.

The OS that Immich Server is running on

TrueNAS SCALE

Version of Immich Server

v1.101.0

Version of Immich Mobile App

irrelevant

Platform with the issue

• [X] Server
• [X] Web
• [ ] Mobile

Your docker-compose.yml content

TrueCharts Kubernetes template in https://github.com/truecharts/charts/tree/master/charts/stable/immich

Your .env content

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Reproduction steps

1. Name some person "Alex Влад Bülow" (english, cyrillic, german)
2. Search for english letter "A" – found a match
3. Search for cyrillic letter "В" – no matches
4. Search for german umlaut "ü" - no matches

Relevant log output

No response

Additional information

Same steps attempted on the "Merge people" screen work just fine.

[martabal]

I think the issue is not related to non-English characters. The search for people works the same way as the App-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named, by matching the beginning of each word that makes up the name.

[krin-san]

I think the issue is not related to non-English characters. The search for people works the same way as the App-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named, by matching the beginning of each word that makes up the name.

In this case searching for the first letter of a name should match it. It is only partially correct: it matches lowercase letters in beginning of words, but not uppercase letters.
Anyway, this behavior is quite confusing. I would expect it to work the same way as on "Merge people" screen.