Re: Matching on accented letters

Store the normalized names in the db and just search against that. I think
trying to match against all possible letter names would give a very slow
performance. What do you think?

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, 10:26 p.m. EBIRIM, Angela, <ebirima@parliament.uk>
wrote:

I am looking for a way to match letters and their accented equivalents in a
SPARQL query.  For example, a search for names beginning with the letter O
would return names such as Osbourne, Owen, but also Ömen.  I have found
lots of resources around normalising accented characters, but essentially
we are trying to go the other way, by taking a non-accented character and
matching it against itself and all its possible accented equivalents.


Has anyone done this before and if so how?


Thanks
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