Not get the result when search using normal English, The data's are in Spanish

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Friends in my ionic application API return data's are in Spanish language, I want to implement local search(sub string matching) in these data. Unfortunately accent/diacritics are does not match with normal character Eg. 'María', here 'í' is different from normal 'i' When I search using key word 'maria' i don't get the result.

How can I check 'í' is equal to 'i' and other characters.

Your question has been asked before. I googled 'javascript string search ignore accents' and found several StackOverflow answers: [Using JavaScript to perform text matches with/without accented characters](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5700636/using-javascript-to-perform-text-matches-with-without-accented-characters), [string.search() that ignores accented characters?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11115417/string-search-that-ignores-accented-characters), [How to search a string ignoring accent characters (e.g. ã = a)](https://stackoverflow.com/q/5875389/1280867) and more — Martin, Oct 19 '17 at 13:25
Thanks for your suggestion! I got that tums after posting this question. — Mebin Xtapps, Oct 20 '17 at 13:11

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '17 at 07:52

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Based on the answer of this question: Remove accents/diacritics in a string in JavaScript

I don't know how you are doing your search, but it's normal that you don't get any result with í and i, they don't have the same ASCII code.

What you can do during your search is replacing temporary all accents and diacritics in your search text and in your data text.

answered Oct 19 '17 at 07:52

Zooly

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how to check ASCII code, the `í` is only get from load server data And used just sub string matching using indexof function – Mebin Xtapps Oct 19 '17 at 08:39
You don't need ASCII code. I just meant that it's normal that your search wasn't working, because those 2 chars are considered as different – Zooly Oct 19 '17 at 08:40
I want to consider it as same. How can I? – Mebin Xtapps Oct 19 '17 at 08:43
As I said, by replacing all accent/diacritics chars by normal char in your search method. But if you want more accurate help, you have to provide code... – Zooly Oct 19 '17 at 08:44
Thanks zooly, I just replace the accent/diacritics by usual letter. Now it's working fine :-) – Mebin Xtapps Oct 19 '17 at 12:09
Happy that it helped you :) – Zooly Oct 19 '17 at 12:09

Not get the result when search using normal English, The data's are in Spanish

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