# Diacritics and search **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/diacritics-and-search/73744 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [November 9, 2017, 6:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/diacritics-and-search/73744 "2017-11-09T06:57:25Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 17
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [August 31, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/diacritics-and-search/73744/17 "2018-08-31T01:25:49Z")
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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-should-ignore-if-a-character-is-accented-when-doing-a-search/90198): > > 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 : And And so on… In the topic creation: But: I think this is a major flaw regarding the search efficiency … Closing this one in favor of ⏫ --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/diacritics-and-search/73744)._