Adding search characters that support automatic phrasing

Inclusion of original punctuation marks in search query phrases returns more relevant results.

To add search characters that support automatic phrasing:

If you have phrases that include punctuation, add those punctuation marks as search characters. Adding the punctuation marks ensures that the MDEX Engine includes the punctuation when tokenizing the query, and therefore the MDEX Engine can match search terms with punctuation to phrases with punctuation.

For example, suppose you add phrases based on a Winery dimension, and consequently the Winery name Anderson & Brothers exists in your phrase dictionary. You should create a search character for the ampersand (&).

Note: For details on search characters, see About search characters.