Feature request: Find supports diacritical words
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
For example, I want to find "café" by typing "cafe"
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with Vimium's Find feature and trace the search-matching entry point; the issue names no file or test. Reproduce the example where typing "cafe" finds "café", then add coverage for that behavior while preserving existing Find matching.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- search, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100