bglw
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2 years ago Oh my, I just had a dig and found the issue.
Everything is fine on the indexing side, Régis is indexed correctly. To normalize content Pagefind is replacing special characters using a [^\\w] regex.
The issue is that on the indexing side we use Rust's regex engine, which is good and counts é as a "word character". In the browser though we normalize the search via the js regex engine, which is bad and does not count é as a word character and thus removes it before searching. So it always forcibly searches for Rgis.
I'll write up some tests and aim to get a release out later today that addresses this.
It appears that words with accented letters aren’t indexed. I searched for “Régis” as both “Régis” and “Regis” — neither returned “Régis.” Same for “Bjørn” — neither “Bjørn” nor “Bjorn” would return “Bjørn.” Just in case it was simply ignoring the accented letters, I also tried “Rgis” and “Bjrn” (respectively), and neither worked.