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				<title>Odd behavior of name_equals in "search" webservice method </title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Why is this call returning no results?

http://ws.geonames.org/search?style=FULL&lang=en&name_equals=Basel-Mulhouse&country=fr

If instead of "name_equals" I use "name" it works as expected:

http://ws.geonames.org/search?style=FULL&lang=en&name=Basel-Mulhouse&country=fr

Thanks,
Oscar
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:13:56]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Odd behavior of name_equals in "search" webservice method </title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Same problem occurs with Frankfurt-Hahn.
More information:
- this problem was not happening a few months ago
- it could be related to the "-" in the middle of the names

http://ws.geonames.org/search?style=FULL&lang=en&name_equals=Frankfurt-Hahn&country=de

http://ws.geonames.org/search?style=FULL&lang=en&name=Frankfurt-Hahn&country=de

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:34:24]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Odd behavior of name_equals in "search" webservice method </title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Thanks Oscar. There was a bug in how alternate names are processed by the indexer, when they included '-' in the name.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:02:22]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Odd behavior of name_equals in "search" webservice method </title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi again Marc.

Is there another issue when the name contains a parenthesis ?

For example this search does not work:

http://ws.geonames.org/search?style=FULL&lang=en&fclass=P&name_equals=Frankfurt+%28Oder%29&country=de

Thanks!
Oscar
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:31:38]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Odd behavior of name_equals in "search" webservice method </title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Oscar 

You are right there is an other issue with parenthesis. On the free servers it has been fixed, on the commercial servers it will be fixed in a couple of days.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:12:10]]> GMT</pubDate>
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