# Removing diacritics when tokenizing for search does not work retroactively?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-diacritics-when-tokenizing-for-search-does-not-work-retroactively/95497>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-diacritics-when-tokenizing-for-search-does-not-work-retroactively/95497 "2018-08-23T18:01:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![danekhollas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/danekhollas/32/79637_2.png) [@danekhollas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danekhollas)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-diacritics-when-tokenizing-for-search-does-not-work-retroactively/95497/1 "2018-08-23T18:01:58Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [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/90198/12):

@zogstrip implemented a change to search which should now ignore accents. I did an upgrade and tried it out but it does not seem to work. Is it possible that it will only work for new posts? If so, is it possible to apply the fix retroactively i.e. rebuild the PG index?

Or maybe I am doing something wrong? btw: I upgraded via upgrade manager UI.

Thanks!

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