Diacritics and search

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

OK I know this is a newer topic but all the discussion work happened here:

Discourse should ignore if a character is accented when doing a search

Hi. In French, we have a lot of accented characters, and also a lot of people that don’t bother typing them when writing. Because Discourse seems to be strict regarding accents, this leads to partial results only when a user enters a string which can contain accents, from the search feature or the category filter when creating a topic : [image] And [image] And so on… [image] In the topic creation: [image] But: [image] I think this is a major flaw regarding the search efficiency …

Closing this one in favor of