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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-should-ignore-if-a-character-is-accented-when-doing-a-search/90198
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** search, completed
**Created:** [June 19, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-should-ignore-if-a-character-is-accented-when-doing-a-search/90198 "2018-06-19T10:52:24Z")
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### Author: ![rriemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rriemann/32/115238_2.png) [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-should-ignore-if-a-character-is-accented-when-doing-a-search/90198/8 "2018-08-18T16:38:53Z")

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This bug report from 2017 is related:

> [@Username completition broken for names with accents like Régis](https://meta.discourse.org/t/username-completition-broken-for-names-with-accents-like-regis/65934):
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> Hello, In my forum, people have real names with all different kind of accents. I tried to use the username completition launched by typing @ to mention a user while writing a response and found that I could not find users by their name if the name contains an é. You can test it on your own. Try to find @zogstrip by typing @ followed by Ré for Régis. The actual username lookup is https://meta.discourse.org/u/search/users?term=r&topic\_id=65888&include\_groups=true. Note that all characters from t…

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