UTF-8 characters in search query

[Siebe]

When I enter UTF-8 valid characters as search query like https://api.podcastindex.org/api/1.0/search/byterm?q=路书
I expect to see matching results, at least one, being feedID 1057395 with title "路书"
Instead I get a 200 result back from the server without any results

The database dump is UTF-8 valid, I can find all these locally with sqlite. Somewhere between the endpoint and database a part of the character set seems to get lost.

more (4 byte i guess) UTF-8 stuff:
https://api.podcastindex.org/api/1.0/search/byterm?q=ह्रद्रव - id 1241499
https://api.podcastindex.org/api/1.0/search/byterm?q=€ - id 599868
https://api.podcastindex.org/api/1.0/search/byterm?q=ش - id 1252619
... and all emoji's.. if you'd ever want to search on those...

edit: orignal report https://podcastindex.social/web/statuses/104943195094223980

[daveajones]

Probably getting lost in the Sphinx call. Thanks for posting this bug report so I wouldn’t forget.

[stonega]

Sorry to disturb, I want to know any update about this issue, the Chinese is still not supported at least, this is pretty serious issue I think, because a lot of podcsats can not be searched.
Thanks for great work as always!