On 10/30/2013 10:08 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > My comment had nothing to do with Python, it was a > general comment. A diacritical mark just makes a letter > a different letter; a "ï " and a "i" are "as > diferent" as a "a" from a "z". A diacritical mark > is more than a simple ornementation.
That's nice, but you didn't actually read what Ned said (or the OP). The OP doesn't care that "ï " and a "i" are as different as "a" and "z". For the purposes of his search he wants them treated as the same letter. A fuzzy searching treats them all the same. For example, a search for "Godel, Escher, Bach" should find "Gödel, Escher, Bach" just fine. Even though "o" and "ö" are different characters. And lo and behold Google actually does this! Try it. It's nice for those of use who want to find something and our US keyboards don't have the right marks. https://www.google.ca/search?q=godel+escher+bach After all this nonsense, that's what the original poster is looking for (I think... can't be sure since it's been so many days now). Seems to me a python module does this quite nicely: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
