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In version 2 the caching filenames are hashed which means that international characters and symbols are supported and less likely to break searx.

1. webapp.py in /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/webapp.py : def search()
2. __init__.py in /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/search/__init__.py : class Search

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/cache
for i in {0..255}; do sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/cache/$(printf "%02x" $i); done
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sudo chown -R searxng:searxng /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/cache
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/cache
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import hashlib

        fname = request.form['q'] + str(search_query.pageno) + str(search_query.categories[0])
    
        # Generate a hash of the search term
        hash_object = hashlib.md5(fname.encode())
        hex_dig = hash_object.hexdigest()
        subdirectory = hex_dig[:2]  # Use the first 2 characters of the hash as the subdirectory name

        cache_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join("cache", subdirectory))

        if not os.path.exists(cache_dir):
            os.makedirs(cache_dir)

        file_path = os.path.join(cache_dir, fname)
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import hashlib

    def search_standard(self):
        """
        Update self.result_container, self.actual_timeout
        """
        requests, self.actual_timeout = self._get_requests()

        cache_dir = 'cache'

        # send all search-request
        fname = self.search_query.query.lower() + str(self.search_query.pageno) + str(self.search_query.categories[0])
        hash_object = hashlib.md5(fname.encode())
        hex_dig = hash_object.hexdigest()
        subdirectory = hex_dig[:2]  # Use the first 2 characters of the hash as the subdirectory name
        query_dir = os.path.join(cache_dir, subdirectory)
        mock_data_filename = os.path.join(query_dir, fname)

        # Check if the file exists in the cache directory
        if requests:
            if os.path.isfile(mock_data_filename):
                self.search_multiple_requests2(requests)
            else:
                self.search_multiple_requests(requests)

        # return results, suggestions, answers and infoboxes
        return True
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