Request: Search Functionality with dashes & hyphens

I have always had some trouble searching Paizo.com for PFS scenarios numerically, e.g. searching for 5-17 by number instead of it's name. Until today, I assumed it was just a matter of numbers being common and confusable.

I just noticed that it appears all the scenarios are using dashes instead of hyphens in their name (5–17 instead of 5-17), specifically an en-dash. The dash shows up a bit longer (at least in some fonts), although shorter than an em-dash. From a quick bit of research, I think grammatically a hyphen is more appropriate, but that's not really the point.

I was hoping the search function could be modified to either convert hyphens to dashes or, more preferably, treat them as identical.

It seems to work reasonably if you do a search with quotes, for: "5-17"

Not fantastically, but that might be enough?

I don't see any difference between using quotes and not Avatar. "Brawl—Catfight: Nickie Deck" comes up first every time if I use the hyphenated version, while the scenario comes up first with the en-dash version, quotes or not.

Side note: It does appear my nifty firefox search plugin is converting automatically to hyphens, so that might explain the prevalence of the issue for me.

I was hoping the search function could be modified to either convert hyphens to dashes or, more preferably, treat them as identical.

We do indeed do conversions—your search using a hyphen will bring up results that have en-dashes, but such items will usually rank lower in the results than things that *actually* have hyphens, since those are "more exact" matches.

Similarly, your search using an en-dash will bring up results that have hyphens, but such items will usually rank lower in the results than things that *actually* have en-dashes, since those are "more exact" matches.

(Same deal with em-dashes.)

You're right, the firefox search plugin brings up different results to using the search in the site (where 5-17 appears 4th on the list).

We do indeed do conversions—your search using a hyphen will bring up results that have en-dashes, but such items will usually rank lower in the results than things that *actually* have hyphens, since those are "more exact" matches.

Similarly, your search using an en-dash will bring up results that have hyphens, but such items will usually rank lower in the results than things that *actually* have en-dashes, since those are "more exact" matches.

Hmm, no direct keyboard option here for en-dashes, but I suppose I can just remember to use ALT-0150 to get –.

Edit: Different character, but Alt-196 also works to get ─, "BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL", which I guess finds more matches under en-dashes.

On a Mac, en-dashes are option-hyphen and em-dashes are shift-option-hyphen.