Searching the forum for strings with special characters - like "e-Tax"

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sutebayashi
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Searching the forum for strings with special characters - like "e-Tax"

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I am trying to use the forum search feature to search for "e-Tax".

But I assume because the hyphen (-) character between the "e" and the "Tax" is a special character that means to exclude a word from the search, it isn't giving me the results I want.

Is there a way to escape the hyphen character and get the posts containing "e-Tax"?

(I tried using / and \ characters and enclosing the whole "e-Tax" in quotes but none seemed to work, unless I have had too many wines.)
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It looks like there's a plug-in to get Google search by default from within the forum, but Ben would have to set that up 😄

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... glesearch/
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adamu wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:49 am It looks like there's a plug-in to get Google search by default from within the forum, but Ben would have to set that up 😄

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... glesearch/
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