search ignoring diacritics

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 16:15:51 EDT

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If you want to specify a search option of "ignore diacritics", would there
be any reason not to do simply the following>

- normalise both data and search string
- delete / ignore all characters with general category Mn

- Peter

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