353647 - Find toolbar: enter unaccented character should match accented ones

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 202251

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[Ed Avis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060921 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060921 Minefield/3.0a1

Usually search interfaces ignore accents on characters just as they ignore case.  So if you search for 'Silovic' it should also match 'Šilović'.  Google does that, for example, but Firefox's find dialogue does not.

To reproduce, go to the URL mentioned in this bug report, type '/' to start an incremental search, then type 'miroslav silovic'.  Desired behaviour: it finds the occurrence of 'Miroslav Šilović', ignoring both case and accents, and highlights it.  Actual behaviour: it gets as far as highlighting 'Miroslav ' but then the search fails.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ed Avis]

FWIW the first character of 'Šilović' is S with an inverted circumflex; the last character is c with acute accent, which Bugzilla has turned into ć.

Perhaps I should have chosen more well-known accented characters to illustrate this bug report ;-p.  It seems to apply equally to other languages like the i-acute in Spanish 'sí'.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

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