Accented Character Insensitive Search

[esolmaan]

I'd like to propose a feature enhancement for the AIMP player. Currently, when searching for songs or artists, the player treats accented characters differently, which can sometimes lead to missed results. For example, searching for "cafe" might not yield results if the song is titled "café".

I suggest implementing a search functionality that is insensitive to accented characters, meaning that variations, for example, of the letter "a" such as "ā", "ă", "å", "ä", "ã", "â", "á", "à", "Ǟ", "ǟ", "Ǡ", "ǡ", "Ǣ", "Ǻ", "ǻ", "ȁ", "Ȃ", and "ȃ" are all recognized as equivalent to "a" during searches.

This enhancement would improve user experience and ensure that users can easily find the songs or artists they're looking for, regardless of how the characters are accented.

[Artem]

AIMP compares the strings using OS API

[esolmaan]

So there is no chance that this "search problem" will be changed in the future?

[JD]

AIMP compares the strings using OS API

JFYI
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/stringapiset/nf-stringapiset-comparestringex
LINGUISTIC_IGNOREDIACRITIC

So it's possible to do this using API.

[Artem]

LINGUISTIC_IGNOREDIACRITIC

Thanks, I will check it

[Artem]

Thanks, I will check it

I will implement this in next minor version.

[esolmaan]

I will implement this in next minor version.

I've waited so many years for this... 🥹