GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 418189
search & replace regardless of diacritics
Last modified: 2020-11-24 10:00:52 UTC
There are texts with or without accented characters sometimes. For example some French texts have "Ecole", "École", "ECOLE", "ÉCOLE" or "école", some languages could have similar cases but with combining diacrtics, like "MBƆTE", "MBƆ́TƐ" or "mbɔ́tɛ" in Lingala. It would be nice to be able to ignore diacritics when searching, unless this is/will be easily done with the regexp plugin.
I'm guessing this would depend on gtksourceview being able to do this.
Evince had a similar bug (bug #408299) involving wrapped words, possibly with hyphens. They filed it under freedesktop's backend library.
This can be done with normalization. Gedit could normalize the search string to match the document, and warn if the document is inconsistant. http://blog.golang.org/normalization
This doesn't matter much as gedit doesn't currently display text with diacritics right. This bug thus depends bug 746136 .
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