Search in User Profiles does not work on localized values at Sharepoint 2013

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Search in User Profiles does not work on localized values at Sharepoint 2013

HI! I from Russia and yesterday i was trying to search user profiles by russian. For example, my last name is Мурадов and account name is demo\muradov. I can find myself by searching "demo", "muradov", but I can't find myself by "Мурадов".

For search I used Manage User Profiles page from central administration and UserProfileManager.Search() method from code. I decided to figure out, why it happens.

I was decompile Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles assembly and saw, that UserProfileManager.Search() method is using stored procedure dbo.proc_Profile_SearchUser.

Manage User Profiles used this procedure too (I checked it with SQL Server Profiler). I used SQL Server profiler and found procedure call, it seem like

exec dbo.proc_Profile_SearchUser @partitionID='0c37852b-34d0-418e-91c6-2ac25af4be5b',@correlationId='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000',@Term1=N'demo'  

And it was interesting, because

exec dbo.proc_Profile_SearchUser @partitionID='0c37852b-34d0-418e-91c6-2ac25af4be5b',@correlationId='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000',@Term1=N'muradov' - retrieved my profile

exec dbo.proc_Profile_SearchUser @partitionID='0c37852b-34d0-418e-91c6-2ac25af4be5b',@correlationId='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000',@Term1=N'Мурадов' - my profile not found

I open code for dbo.proc_Profile_SearchUser and start investigating... and found, that there is a table dbo.Profile_SearchUserTermStats, which store my last name as '???????', but table dbo.Profile_SearchUserTables - stores my last name as 'Мурадов'. I changed value '???????' to 'Мурадов' at dbo.Profile_SearchUserTermStats table and call dbo.proc_Profile_SearchUser - it found with search parameter as 'Мурадов'! UserProfileManager.Search() and Manage User Profiles page found me too. But, if I edit my profile and save it, my russians values will be again as '???????'.

I thought, that problem in collation of SQL Server (it was Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS), and I remove SQLServer and install with collation Cyrillic_General_CI_AS. But all sharepoint databases was created with Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation.

Now, I'm stuck. I have no idea what exactly I should do with this and I need help.

UPD. I working with Windows Server 2012 Stndart with russian language pack, also I set russian locale in OS (even is I change locale to English (US) - it doesn't help, I tried)

UPD2. I found table UserProfileValue which store profile values as sql_variant and when this column convert to nvarchar(4000) - there are right values ('Мурадов') transform to wrong ('???????'). Even if I try run following: SELECT 'Мурадов' - result as '??????', but SELECT N'Мурадов' - result as 'Мурадов' The problem still not solved.

Answer 1

I have found bug related with this behavior. Steps to fix them:

1. Open [dbo].[proc_Profile_SetSearchUserTerms] procedure
2. Check @changedValues declaration (varchar)
3. Alter procedure with

   DECLARE @changedValues TABLE (PropertyValue nvarchar(255), Direction int)

4. Be happy.