[Developers] Looking for Beyonce

[brendan neutra]

if the goal is to help a user find an object in the database, may I suggest...

http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/

brendan

Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> Hi,
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> Most users are used to searching for Beyonce (without the accent) and finding Beyoncé.
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> {
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>   "query":[{
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>     "id":null,
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>     "name":null,
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>     "name~=":"Beyonce",
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>     "type":"/music/artist"
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>   }]
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> }
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> But this query does not return any results. Any suggestion on how to search while ignoring accented characters? 
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> Have fun,
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>     Arthur
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