From: "Lars Aronsson" lars@aronsson.se
If I search for "van eyck" (with the whitespace, but sans the quotes), I get an ugly error message.
You may not realize it but there is a little parser that parses your querie (you can now use and/or/not and brackets in your search query) and it took quite some of my time to let this parser give you a more detailed error message than just "syntax error". :-)
Is it really such a crime to want to search for a string that includes the whitespace?
No. The problem is that because of how the MySQL indexing works you cannot do that anymore. For the same reason you also cannot search for anything that is not a letter or words with less than 4 letters. I have plans on how this might be solved, but that is not going to be easy.
Also, if I search for "van\ eyck", the error message comes up and the input box contains "van\ eyck".
That's a little bug. A forgot to unescape the letters that are escaped for the URL. That will be fixed in the near future.
-- Jan Hidders