Bug#425806: searching should ignore diacritics

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 425806 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421253
tags 425806 +fixed-upstream
thanks

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 00:14 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Just as searching should ignore case, it should also ignore diacritics.
> 
> Create, for example, a track with the artist as "Arvo Pärt" and then search for "part". Notice that
> the search fails to match.  Notice that a search for "pärt" will succeed.
> 
> This is actually a bug, not wishlist, because the unicode standard and common gnome practice
> call for searching in the ignore-diacritics way just as for ignore-case.

Hi again,

This is fixed upstream, but so far only in the development version.

There is a new release planned, but I don't know if Loïc plans to track
the stable version or the (IMHO) more interesting development version? 

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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