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  2. CONFSERVER-22495

Allow search feature to ignore accent

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      We have an issue here with confluence that prevent us to adopt it fully in our company .

      In the French language, we use accents, such as é,à,é,etc.. and we need Confluence to ignore those accents for searchs, like google does.

      For instance the search text: "majore", should give us pages with "majoré" or "majore" or "majorè"

      It would be very useful if we could configure the search feature to be able to ignore accents.

      Languages that should ignore accents for searches are:

      • English (for loanwords, and also cover other European languages not supported in Confluence indexing)
      • French
      • Spanish
      • Catalan (not supported in Confluence indexing)
      • Portuguese (currently only Brazilian Portuguese is supported in Confluence indexing)

            [CONFSERVER-22495] Allow search feature to ignore accent

            Ingunn Amsen added a comment -

            Hasnae Rehioui: Please see my comment in CONFSERVER-56200.

            Ingunn Amsen added a comment - Hasnae Rehioui: Please see my comment in  CONFSERVER-56200 .

            Hasnae (Inactive) added a comment -

            Hi tombirch, thanks for your feedback. It would be great to have some more details so we fully understand the problem. Can you provide us with an example of a Danish search query, and what you expect from the search results ?

            I have been studying Norwegian for a little while, so I am very much interested in applying what I have learnt so far to Confluence search.

            Thanks !

            Hasnae (Inactive) added a comment - Hi tombirch , thanks for your feedback. It would be great to have some more details so we fully understand the problem. Can you provide us with an example of a Danish search query, and what you expect from the search results ? I have been studying Norwegian for a little while, so I am very much interested in applying what I have learnt so far to Confluence search. Thanks !

            Tom Birch Hansen added a comment -

            Please, for Danish language do not allow danish letters æ,ø,å / Æ,Ø,Å to be treated as accents. It messes up our search results.

            Tom Birch Hansen added a comment - Please, for Danish language do not allow danish letters æ,ø,å / Æ,Ø,Å to be treated as accents. It messes up our search results.

            Sebastien Nadeau added a comment -

            Hi,

              Is there a similar ticket created for Jira Server ?  We have the same issue while searching in Jira and were hoping that this would also be adressed.  I suppose this would be a different ticket/issue ?

              Regards,

            Sebastien Nadeau added a comment - Hi,   Is there a similar ticket created for Jira Server ?  We have the same issue while searching in Jira and were hoping that this would also be adressed.  I suppose this would be a different ticket/issue ?   Regards,

            Niraj Bhawnani added a comment -

            Hi everyone,

            In Confluence 6.10.0 we only implemented ignoring accents for a set of indexing languages:

            • Brazilian Portugese
            • English
            • French

            We have created a new ticket to gather interest in implementing the same feature for German and Czech. Please refer to CONFSERVER-57455.

            Regards,
            Niraj Bhawnani.
            Senior Development Team Lead, Confluence Server
            Atlassian

            Niraj Bhawnani added a comment - Hi everyone, In Confluence 6.10.0 we only implemented ignoring accents for a set of indexing languages: Brazilian Portugese English French We have created a new ticket to gather interest in implementing the same feature for German and Czech. Please refer to  CONFSERVER-57455 . Regards, Niraj Bhawnani. Senior Development Team Lead, Confluence Server Atlassian

            Maroš Barabas added a comment -

            This does not work with Czech in 6.11.2

            Maroš Barabas added a comment - This does not work with Czech in 6.11.2

            Jonathan added a comment -

            oh man, this doesn't seem to have been implemented for german. there are no accents in german, but we have coworkers with accents in their names and want to find them without having to use the accents. is this configurable?

            Jonathan added a comment - oh man, this doesn't seem to have been implemented for german. there are no accents in german, but we have coworkers with accents in their names and want to find them without having to use the accents. is this configurable?

            Jenny (Inactive) added a comment -

            Hi all,

            I'm pleased to let you know that accents and special characters will now be ignored in search results. For example, searching "Senegal" will also return "Sénégal".

            This improvement is available to Server and Data Center customers in Confluence 6.10.0
            Upgrade now or check out the Release Notes for more information.

            Thanks

            Jenny Millman | Product Manager, Confluence Server

            Jenny (Inactive) added a comment - Hi all, I'm pleased to let you know that accents and special characters will now be ignored in search results. For example, searching "Senegal" will also return "Sénégal". This improvement is available to Server and Data Center customers in Confluence 6.10.0 Upgrade now or check out the Release Notes for more information. Thanks Jenny Millman | Product Manager, Confluence Server

            Jean-Francois Potvin added a comment -

            Our team is located in Quebec, Canada and French is our main language. I know it is not a focus for English developers but we constantly face this challenge when we develop products designed for French users.

            Please consider this suggestion (that could also qualify as a bug) in your next update.

            Many thanks!

            Jean-Francois Potvin added a comment - Our team is located in Quebec, Canada and French is our main language. I know it is not a focus for English developers but we constantly face this challenge when we develop products designed for French users. Please consider this suggestion (that could also qualify as a bug) in your next update. Many thanks!

            Sebastien Nadeau added a comment -

            Hi,

              If it can help bringing this feature quicker, we will be happy to assist you !

              Regards,

            Sebastien Nadeau added a comment - Hi,   If it can help bringing this feature quicker, we will be happy to assist you !   Regards,

              hrehioui Hasnae (Inactive)
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