Thread:Talk:Search/Accents/diacritics/hyphens are not handled at all like the current Lucene search/reply (5)

Proposal for accents: If you search with an accent it should only return results with the accent. If you search without it it should return both. This will still only be enabled for English unless some other language wants it. A potential twist: only forgo squashing accents if the accented string is quoted like "clientèle" or "Harrods has an upper-class clientèle". I could see arguments for both behaviours and both would be about the same to implement.

Regarding hyphens: Cirrus certainly treats all hyphens as word breaks. We could do the same trick for hyphenated word as I propose for accented words though it'd apply to all languages.

I'm tracking both together as 60299.