Ignore accents/diacritics in link suggestion, quick switcher, find in file and global search

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I’m testing Omnisearch now and it appears to be solving the problem. Thanks a lot, scambier.

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+1 Omnisearch works but I’m mostly bothered when linking notes, I’m forced to type around the word like for example the name Fœdora I just type fdora to find it. Happens so often with French

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EDIT: there’s a feature request covering this problem here: Ignore accents/diacritics in link suggestion, quick switcher, find in file and global search

Hi, I save nearly all my webclips in English, but I write mostly in Spanish and Catalan, which often use very similar words but with different tildes (I think tilde is the right word, sorry if it isn’t)

For instance, if I want fo quickly find notes about cameras, I end up having to search 3 times :rofl:

  • English: camera
  • Catalan: càmera
  • Spanish: cámara (OK, this one has a different vowel but I can’t think of a better example right now)

I’ve looked for fuzzy search plugins, but I don’t see anything that works on the good old search pane.
I haven’t seen any search syntax either, but I’d swear there was some modifier to achieve what I want.

It would be cool for searches to ignore all the weird things we put above vowels (á, à, ä, â…) it could be useful for other bilingual speakers too, I’m sure I’m not alone in this. Some kind of fuzzy search for similar words, like the example above, could work too.

Any ideas? Should I post a feature request?

And I know it’d be easier to use only one language, but I really need to use those three.

Thank you! :slightly_smiling_face:

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The underlying problem may be that you seem to create your accents by merging two characters: one normal English ABC character plus a sign (accent) that will be merged into the other character.
Are you using some keyboard shortcuts to create accented characters on an English only keyboard maybe?
Because if the accented character takes one character length space, then Obsidian will differentiate between accented and non-accented characters.

I may be wrong here but this would be a reasonable explanation.

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I think you’re right about the merging. I use a Spanish keyboard, to write á you push the accent key and then the “a” key, I guess this creates a combined character that Obsidian recognizes as distinct.

EDIT: thanks for correcting me, it was accent instead of tilde

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Or rather, it will match the non-accented ‘a’, ‘n’, etc. all the time.

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I really don’t know what’s happening under the hood, but I don’t recall having this problem before.

I’ll try other desktop and text search programs, but I just searched this thread for “cam” on my browser and it found my 3 examples: camera, càmera and cámara.

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:+1:

There is an existing feature request. ¿We can dream?

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I was testing LibreOffice and found the “diacritic-sensitive” setting just now! :rofl:

I was going to search the forum again, now that I know how it’s called. Thank you for finding and sharing the feature request.

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I merged your thread into this one. Thanks!

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Still very much needed in 2025. Any ETA please ?

Thank you.

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