I've read about ascii folding using elasticsearch, I was wondering if there was any way to incorporate this into Enhanced Search? My forum does a lot of searching by name and it would be very useful to have the search engine catch names that use things like accents or diaereses without having to actually input those characters which can be a pain.
Searching while avoiding accents and other special characters
- Thread starter sapph
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It would involve custom configuration of your Elasticsearch index. It's not something that we would officially support at this time. I posted a potential approach here, though it's possible it isn't correct with the current versions of Elasticsearch: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/searching-for-special-characters.71123/#post-741987 (It hasn't been tested).
