trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:49:28 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:

>> The right solution to that is to treat it no differently from other
>> fuzzy
>> searches. A good search engine should be tolerant of spelling errors
>> and
>> alternative spellings for any letter, not just those with diacritics.
>> Ideally, a good search engine would successfully match all three of
>> "naïve", "naive" and "niave", and it shouldn't rely on special handling
>> of diacritics.
> 
> This is a non sense. The purpose of a diacritical mark is to make a
> letter a different letter. If a tool is supposed to match an ô, there is
> absolutely no reason to match something else.


I'm glad that you know so much better than Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other 
search engines. When I search for "mispealled" Google gives me:

    Showing results for misspelled
    Search instead for mispealled


But I see now that this is nonsense and there is *absolutely no reason* 
to match something other than the ecaxt wrods I typed.

Perhaps you should submit a bug report to Google:

"When I mistype a word, Google correctly gives me the search results I 
wanted, instead of the wrong results I didn't want."



-- 
Steven