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by niwri 3466 days ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that behaviour was intentional.
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johnfn 3466 days ago
It is intentional. It allows a search for "pokemon" to match "Pokémon".
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x3n0ph3n3 3466 days ago
It's done with case-insensitive matching based on the rules of character collation [1], but I'm struggling to find a good article on the topic.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collation

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Pyppe 3465 days ago
Transliteration. See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration
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