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    European Portuguese text matching

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    Portuguese text matching is tuned for European Portuguese. Noun and adjective plurals match their singular forms even when a query omits accents: fogoes matches fogão, portateis matches portátil, and lencois matches lençol.

    Pre-1990 and Brazilian spellings also match their current European forms: eléctrico matches elétrico, detector matches detetor, and umidificador matches humidificador. The elided d' is removed, so água matches caixa d'água.

    Product terms remain searchable, including sem in aspirador sem fios, só in só frio, no in No Frost, se in iPhone SE, pelos for pet hair, eu in ficha EU, and the energy classes a and e. Common function words such as de, que and têm are ignored. NAS storage, NOS routers, ME/TE codes, JA Solar panels, ERA locks, DOS/OS names, COM ports, units such as um, and São/Sao in names remain searchable. não/nao (not/non) and fora (outside) retain their product meaning.

    black & decker, black decker and BLACK+DECKER match each other, including when all query terms are required. Any other & is treated as e, which remains searchable for the energy class, and + as plus. When all query terms are required, bang & olufsen therefore matches Bang & Olufsen but doesn’t match Bang Olufsen or BANG+OLUFSEN; bang olufsen matches all three.

    A catalog owns the language; channels over it share the same text matching. See Catalogs and channels.