Comment 32 for bug 1501781

I'm not clear on how great the performance hit would be but few things are
more frustrating to users than inconsistent behavior.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Galen Charlton <email address hidden> wrote:

> https://gist.github.com/jfragoulis/9914900 gives an example of how to
> customize Pg's unaccent(), but for the sake of consistency, I'm
> wondering if we might be better off taking the performance hit and and
> writing evergreen.unaccent_and_squash() in PL/Perl so that it can use
> Text::Unaccent::PurePerl.
>
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> Title:
> Patron name search should be diacritic-insensitive
>
> Status in Evergreen:
> Triaged
> Status in Evergreen 2.8 series:
> Triaged
> Status in Evergreen 2.9 series:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> This is an enhancement to allow patron name lookups to be more
> tolerant of spacing and special characters. This addresses problems
> related to finding names with diacritics, spaces, and the presence or
> absence of other punctuation marks. (Example, being able to find José
> by searching Jose, or patrons with multiple first and last names like
> "de la Croix" -- or is it "Delacroix"?)
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