Search function not working properly

[Allusion]

Admin > Maintenance > Database >  Convert to UTF-8

The forum seems to be in UTF-8 already.

On the other hand, running the "Convert HTML-entities to UTF-8 characters" task in Admin > Maintenance > Database might help.

[Ihmeliö]

I believe I've found figured out the problem, explaining the seemingly random search inefficiencies: When using the search function from a certain area, it only searches from within that area - when searching from the front page, it searches everywhere.

Maybe this should be emphasized more, somehow somewhere?

[Deaks]

moikka Ihmeliö, do you still need help with this?