musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Instrument search should not require user to use umlaut or other accent marks to find instruments

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Description

Your idea

When I type "guiro" when searching for an instrument, "Güiro" should be one of the search results. Although this is proper for the instrument display name, the user should not need to use that character to find the instrument.

Problem to be solved

Umlauts and other accents should be included when the user searches for the instruments with those characters.

When user types "u", results should display û, ü, ù, ú, ū as well

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Additional context

Related to https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/15983

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Research direction

Start by locating the instrument-search implementation and review related issue #15983 for context. The work is done when searches without umlauts or other accent marks return instrument names containing those characters, including the stated u/û/ü/ù/ú/ū examples.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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