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Hi, I am using libxapian in a C++ project (hence I am using Xapian's C++ API) and some user has requested that search requests should ignore accents. E.g. when the user searches for "Herr Müller" he expects that "Herr Muller" is also a search hit. Is this possible in Xapian? Do you have any links to the documentation of that feature? Thanks for your help, Kim

...to the documentation of that feature? People often use https://www.nongnu.org/unac/ for this, though it doesn't look like it's very actively maintained (or else there's a new home page for it I couldn't trivially find). That seems to just drop the umlaut though. There's also g_str_to_ascii () in glib: https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html#g-str-to-ascii That seems to be a bit too heavy a hammer for normalising text for search though as you really don't want pure ASCII out in every case (particularly for languages which don't use the Lati...