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Improve the search feature for non-Latin scripts

I'm new to Blot and noticed that the search feature returns no results when querying non-Latin scripts (e.g. CJK characters) even though the query exists in the blog posts. I'm vaguely aware the issue stems from the fact that the search feature only matches results wrapped in spaces & line breaks etc. My blog posts will be mostly written in Simplified Chinese, so the search feature is rendered near useless for my blog. I do understand that this may not be a good business decision since I assume the vast majority of blot.im users write in Latin scripts. Nevertheless, I hope you'll consider improving the search feature to accommodate languages that doesn't use spaces as delimiters. Thank you in advance!

Using first frame of a video as preview?

Is there a way to show the first frame (or just any image) of a (local) video (located in the same folder as the .md file) as a preview image rather than just the play icon? This seems to work fine for external video hosted on Youtube, but does not seem to work for video stored in the same folder

Is it possible to show related posts with the same tag?

When I'm on a post, it would be nice to see other posts matching the current posts tag(s). I played with this a little in my custom theme, but couldn't figure out how to filter the entries by the matching tag(s).

Is it possible to have commas in tags?

Is there a way of having commas in tags? Tried putting the tag in quote marks and escaping the comma but the terms either side of the comma always get separated out into separate tags. Thanks.

Site-wide custom metadata?

Is there currently a way to replicate Jekyll style site-wide metadata? I am trying to use Blot for my teaching materials and there are several bits of information (deadlines for papers etc) that need to appear in several different entries; being able to define them in a single (yaml/json?) data file and include them in the entry as, for example {{site.metadata.deadline1}} would be really useful. Thanks!