Suggest similar strings when searching for accounts with uncommon characters
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Users with uncommon characters in their name are sometimes hard to find for coworkers. E.g. someone looks for Celine but can't find here cause it is Céline irl.
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Nextcloud should suggest Céline to Users searching Celine or Mäx to Users searching Max.
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the account search implementation and its tests, then use the Celine/Céline and Max/Mäx examples to define the expected suggestions; done when uncommon-character matches are returned without breaking existing account search.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- backend, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100