[democrite]

Trying a test from one of my recent EPUBs, I recall one instance of a Chinese character transliterated to pinyin that used a combining diacritic.

I generally do edits with BBEdit on macOS and use Sigil only for changes other than xhtml editing. I mainly use Apple Books and search by typing works fine.

My main concern is typing text and being able to search for it later in another editor. Some may use multiple editors. Sigil may not be around forever, or a user may someday even years from now decide to switch to a different editor.

I'm not sure what is the ideal solution. Maybe it is indeed better to leave it alone, or have a preference to normalize to either plus commands for such. Perhaps ideally I'd like to find any text by typing, with any editor, and pasted text would be normalized to whatever matches keyboard input on each platform, if needed. That might be some additional work but perhaps it would be easiest for the user?

It could be for such reasons that normalization of file contents was removed from the spec.