# Fulltext should ignore accents
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/fulltext-should-ignore-accents/37178
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 27, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fulltext-should-ignore-accents/37178 "2015-12-27T20:33:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@johno](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johno)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fulltext-should-ignore-accents/37178/1 "2015-12-27T20:33:41Z")
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. [PostgreSQL: Documentation: 9.0: unaccent](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/unaccent.html)
Any plans to add this?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fulltext-should-ignore-accents/37178/2 "2015-12-27T20:45:02Z")
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
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fulltext-should-ignore-accents/37178/3 "2025-12-04T11:37:12Z")