Thread:Talk:Search/Accents/diacritics/hyphens are not handled at all like the current Lucene search

If I want "clientèle" (there are about 25 on en.wikipedia), I also get several thousand "clientele". Is there a way to make it sensitive to accents and diacritics? Also very desirable would be a case-sensitive search.

I brought this topic up on Help talk:CirrusSearch, but that does not seem to be a very active page. I don't know whether the differences are due to incomplete help instructions, or features that are actually missing from CirrusSearch.

Wikignomes are going to need to search for *exact* matches for accents/diacritics/hyphens (or lack thereof). While we're at it, a case-sensitive search would be very helpful (e.g to find and fix "washington" and "FaceBook").