This feature is interesting for Czech language too. Lot of applications
allows accent free searching due possible issues in original data or some
client limits - missing Czech keyboard and similar
Dne 21.1.2014 17:17 "Alvaro Herrera" <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> napsal(a):

> Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> > (I intensely dislike the idea of ignoring accents, but it's something
> > some people appear to need/want, and is supported by other vendors).
>
> FWIW at least in spanish, users always want to search for entries
> ignoring accents.  Nowadays I think most turn to unaccent(), but before
> that was written people resorted to calling transform() on both the
> stored data and the user-entered query, so that all pertinent matches
> would be found.  People would even create indexes on the unaccented data
> to speed this up.  It's an important feature, not a corner case by any
> means.
>
> Not sure about other languages.  For instance perhaps in French they
> would be interested in ignoring some accents but not others.
>
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