# 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:** Support
**Created:** [8월 23, 2018, 6:01오후 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: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [8월 23, 2018, 9:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-diacritics-when-tokenizing-for-search-does-not-work-retroactively/95497/6 "2018-08-23T21:24:26Z")

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> [@danekhollas](#):
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> If so, is it possible to apply the fix retroactively i.e. rebuild the PG index?

If you don’t want to wait for @sam’s changes, SSH into your server and then

```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rake search:reindex

```

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