Autocomplete doesn't normalize accent marks, diacriticals, and special characters

[maximelebreton]

Hello, and thanks for this awesome plugin!

In French language (and many other languages), we use accents, diacriticals etc...
So the user input need to be normalized to match words with or without special chars.
For example, États-unis should match with "états" and "etats", but it's currently not.

https://codepen.io/maximelebreton/pen/dLOOmO

Maybe the normalize() method is the solution: https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Objets_globaux/String/normalize

Thanks for your help!

[maximelebreton]

and same for dash characters, who needs to be converted to space to match words like "États-unis" with "etats unis" input.

[marcboule98]

I have the same problem, and with normalize() on the input user, and on the results, it works perfectly.

[fbmfbm]

Hi @marcboule98 !
Can you provide some exemple ? normalize() don't resolve the ppm for me

thank's

[marcboule98]

Hi @marcboule98 !
Can you provide some exemple ? normalize() don't resolve the ppm for me

thank's

Hi! Right now I can't show you the example but it's just get the input user and use the normalize method, like that.

this.input = this.input.normalize()

This works for me!

[fbmfbm]

Hi Marc, Thank’s for your answer. This seam to not working for me ;(. I’ll search more on that or change for an other typeahead solution . Have a good day

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[doijunior]

@fbmfbm not sure if you got a solution but I added a pull request to my solution here

while the pull is not accepted I am using from my fork repositorie

[mattzollinhofer]

This repo is no longer maintained. I've forked the repo here and have been maintaining it as best I can.

I just pushed a release that I think should solve the problem of matching diacritics (accents, etc). Check out v2.6.1 here!

cc: @doijunior, @fbmfbm, @marcboule98, @maximelebreton