Fulltext should ignore accents

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Hi there,

it is pretty common for search engines (e.g. google) to ignore accents on characters when doing fulltext search. Example: word kôprová omáčka should be matched by query koprova omacka and vice versa. With PostgreSQL unaccent extension this should be pretty easy. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/unaccent.html

Any plans to add this?

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No plans at the moment but it is a pretty simple patch I would accept.

For CJK languages we pre-parse the text prior to indexing to split up words, same concept could easily be applied in the code path