I found this old thread, which has now been closed, related to an issue we noticed on our site: Discourse should ignore if a character is accented when doing a search - Feature In Te Reo Māori in New Zealand, there are two versions of each vowel – with and without a macron. The macron can change th…

I’m also in Aotearoa NZ; I hadn’t encountered this problem yet, but I can certainly reproduce it on our site : Using ‘maori’ (without macron) <a class="lightbox" href="https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/4X/7/0/e/70e4dda80dd9a81b987ac0b64e74d827948810f1.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/g6HOOauYIspVx5RvGe37zdyFOvL.png?dl=1" title="The image displays a web browser with search results and articles from the Maori website, focusing on topics including data guardianship, gamified learning of Te Reo in health, teleshealth equity, AI adoption, and contributions by Maori community movements. (Captioned by AI)">[The image displays a web browser with search results and articles from the Maori website, focusing on topics including data guardianship, gamified learning …

Macrons and search results in NZ

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) Split this topic May 30, 2025, 2:10pm 9

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Macrons and search results in NZ

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