#for context ao3 apparently also uses elastisearch 6 for backend

[hideyseek]

me: wow i would love to find other ao3 fics titled in multiple languages, maybe i will try searching the pipe (|) character

ao3: no results

me: hmm. well ive written fics titled like this so they must exist

me: *tries searching "*" and it gets interpreted as "all", tries escaping the pipe and it gets interpreted as both the pipe and the slash*

me ... google time

stranger on stack overflow: hey so i'm having trouble searching the pipe in elastisearch 6 send help?