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riki · 11-26-2011, 06:38 AM

I've searched these forums to find a previous answer to this question; I suppose there must be one, and if so I apologize for wasting everybody's time, but I couldn't find it.

My problem: Calibre's filter/search doesn't match accented characters to their plain equivalents. In other words, when searching for "le carre" it won't find "le Carré"; same with "asa" vs. "Åsa" etc.

This would be a nice option to have: the database would contain the correct spelling ("le Carré"), while searches for a simplified text ("le carre") would return the intended results even when the user doesn't know/remember the correct diacritics or can't enter them anyway because in lack of a proper localized keyboard (Scandinavian letters such as 'ð', 'å' and 'ø' being the most troublesome for me in particular).

Does Calibre have such an option already?

11-26-2011, 06:38 AM	#1
riki Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: kindle	Search filters: accented characters not matching plain ones I've searched these forums to find a previous answer to this question; I suppose there must be one, and if so I apologize for wasting everybody's time, but I couldn't find it. My problem: Calibre's filter/search doesn't match accented characters to their plain equivalents. In other words, when searching for "le carre" it won't find "le Carré"; same with "asa" vs. "Åsa" etc. This would be a nice option to have: the database would contain the correct spelling ("le Carré"), while searches for a simplified text ("le carre") would return the intended results even when the user doesn't know/remember the correct diacritics or can't enter them anyway because in lack of a proper localized keyboard (Scandinavian letters such as 'ð', 'å' and 'ø' being the most troublesome for me in particular). Does Calibre have such an option already?