Bug 343759

When one search in the search bar, the search is only started if more or equal than 3 "characters" are entered. While this seems reasonnable in English and other western language, it is not convenient for japanese and perhaps other CJK. In Japanese, for example, name are often of length 2 (2 characters) and therefore it makes search by name not possible.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Search for a word (in japanese or else) with a length <3
2.The search does not start
3.Pressing enter does not work too

Actual Results:  
The search does not start

Expected Results:  
The search is automatically triggered or can be forced start by pressing enter or a search button (not available).

Perhaps a good way would be to check for the length in bytes and not character as the problem should mainly concern complex language where each character is 2 bytes. I don't know if it possible or not, just an idea.
I remember that Eike Hein blogged about improving KDE support for CJK, but I don't know how to cc him.