I’m a developer by profession. Don’t get me wrong, I love Obsidian, and I’m thankful for all work done so far. But this is a bug - OK, a usability bug, but still.
Ignoring diacritics is the implicit, default, de facto expected behaviour by virtually any full-text search engine these days. After all, even English has a few words with diacritics: café, façade, naïve, etc.
PS: thanks for all suggesting the OmniSearch plugin, will try that!