Re: matching both accented and non-accented character for non-accented characters?

Subject: Re: matching both accented and non-accented character for non-accented characters?

Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:57:59 -0300

To: Bence Ferdinandy, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of trying to set up reading email in the terminal and
> just installed notmuch, which looks like a pretty awesome tool. I currently
> have one question nagging me:
>
> I have a lot of mail in my native Hungarian, which properly written is full
> of characters like éáűúü, but if someone's writing on a non-Hungarian
> keyboard, or just quickly writing an email from a phone, they often drop
> the accents as it's faster and we'll likely understand anyway. Is it
> possible to set it up that if I search for "lanc" it would also match
> "lánc" other than going `notmuch search lanc OR lánc`?

There is some previous discussion at

      https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/nmweb/search/id%3A87efp2b9er.fsf%40tethera.net

I don't think anyone worked on this in the meantime, so I guess the
short answer is that there is currently no support, but people have
tossed around some ideas.

d
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