Search for 3 characters

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Hello,

I know that MySQL has a 4 characters limitation for minimum string lenght (ft_min_word_len) and if I want to change it to 3 characters, I must edit my.cnf file and set:

[mysqld]
ft_min_word_len=3

and then rebuild FULLTEXT indexes.

My question is if vBulletin has somewhere a function to check the words lenght before perform the query, which returns the error message:

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:

I'm also wondering why this limitation exists for normal (VARCHAR) fields like Title and Username. I believe that these fields are having normal and not FULLTEXT indexes.

Any help will be appreciated. Actually what I want is which vB file to edit to change this text limitation from 4 to 3 characters.

Thank you
Christos