Pathologic Dialogue Search — Help

Before you begin

Popular searches on the main page are clickable — clicking one will automatically apply its filters and launch the search.

This site is still fairly new and currently in active testing. Bug fixes, parser changes, and large reindexes happen regularly.

Because of that, the search may occasionally be partially unavailable, temporarily slow, or under maintenance. Things should stabilize soon.

Thank you for your patience, bug reports, and support!

Basic search

Search is case-insensitive. Uppercase and lowercase letters are treated the same.

You can search using full words or fragments.

haruspex
harus
гаруспик
гарус

Fragments work too — you do not need to type an entire word.

Character normalization

By default, several visually similar or commonly interchangeable letters are treated as equivalent. This behavior can be disabled using the Normalize search option.

Current substitutions:

h / x / х / һ → х
ö /o / о / ө / ѳ → о
у / y / ү → у
е / ё / e → e
ä → a
ü → u
… → ...

Examples:

Searching хөlidaү may still find holiday.

Searching углоо may also find үглөө.

Whole word mode

Enable Whole word mode to restrict results to complete words only.

Without Whole Word:
art
may match:
earth
cart
article

With Whole Word enabled:
only standalone art

Search options

Character normalization

By default, search uses character normalization. This allows visually similar letters and common variants to be treated as equivalent.

You can disable this behavior by unchecking Normalize search.

With normalization enabled:
углоо may also find үглөө

With normalization disabled:
only exact character matches are used.

Ignore punctuation

When Ignore punctuation is enabled, punctuation marks are treated as separators and ignored during matching.

This allows searches to match text even if commas, periods, quotes, or other punctuation differ between translations or editions.

Байгалдай не разрывай мне сердце may match: Байгалдай, не разрывай мне сердце

glass lips may match: glass-lips

When punctuation ignoring is disabled, punctuation becomes significant and phrases must match more closely.

Wildcards

The search understands SQL-style wildcard characters.

Wildcards can be placed anywhere — at the beginning, in the middle, at the end, or combined.

End wildcard:
har%
may match:
haruspex
harvest
harsh

Beginning wildcard:
%pex
may match:
haruspex
apex

Middle wildcard:
ha%ex
may match:
haruspex
halex

Single-character wildcard:
m_n
may match:
man
men
mon

Combined wildcards:
%ar_s%
may match:
haruspex
arms
afterwards

Notes