Alex, I believe you are looking for something like the soundex implementation, that can aproximate words, I´m not sure how close this can go with extended chars like we have in portuguese.
but you can give a try and let us know =) look at some references http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/SoundEx1/SoundEx1.htm http://jsfromhell.com/pt/string/soundex cheers Hamilton www.athanazio.com On Jan 5, 4:43 pm, Alex Tercete <alexterc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Autocomplete plugin:http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete > > As in the subject, I want to be able to highlight the words accents- > insensitivily. Example: if I type "Jose", "José" would be highlighted > and vice-versa ("José" would highlight "Jose"). Is there anyway to do > it? I'm willing to make changes in the source code, if it's necessary.
