Automattic / Automattic/simplenote-electron
Ignore accents and diacritics when searching
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[feature] search
enhancement
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Originally posted by @sdixon194:
> When you search for keywords with accented characters, the app doesn't find the notes that contain those keywords written with non-accented characters (and vice versa).
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> Would be great to have better search functionality for accented characters.
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> 1598900-zen
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the TypeScript search implementation and its existing search tests, then reproduce searches with accented and unaccented keywords; done means both forms match the same notes without breaking existing search behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100