247635 - It should be possible to disable accents for Find-As-You-Type

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 202251

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, enhancement)

Description

[Francois Ingelrest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040607 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040607 Firefox/0.8.0+

As I am french, I very often browse pages with accents on characters. I am a big
fan of the Find-As-You-Type feature, and I think it would be interesting to have
a feature that would 'disable' accents, to use the equivalent characters without
accent (é=e, è=e, à=a...).
For example, if I am searching for the word 'élève', I type 'eleve' more quicker
because there is no accent, but I never find 'élève' if I type this. With such a
feature, I would find all the words that match 'eleve', with or without accents.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Steffen Wilberg]

-> Browser, FAYT.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

That's a cool idea. Would such a feature require us to create a data table of
the accent-less versions of every accented unicode char? Or, is does such a
table or library function already exist in open source somewhere?

Comment 3

[Steffen Wilberg]

Confirming. CCing i18n people. Adding intl keyword.

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202251 ***