Searching library for titles or creator names with accents

aasiddiqui
Is there anyway to change the search settings so that letters with diacritics are included in the results?

For example, my library contains papers by an author with the last name Pressé. I want the journal article info to have this correct spelling when I import the paper, so that it is right when I make my reference list.

However, if I want to find papers by this author in my library and I type "Presse" (without the accent) into the search bar, nothing shows up. I only get results if I type "Pressé" (with the acute accent) into the search bar. This is rather inconvenient, especially considering ALL of the various diacritic accent marks that can be used in entry titles and author names from around the world. Is there a way to conflate the various diacritic marks in the search settings so that they are included when search terms just have regular letters?
  • adamsmith
    This is a very longstanding request, and it's definitely on developers' radar, but no, there's not currently an option for it.
  • mleight
    I'm having an issue entering the accented letters into the platform for a source at all. I saw a post from 2013 about it, but I have to put the correct letters into Word and copy/paste back into the program. I have a Spanish and French language keyboard downloaded to my PC, but none of the shortcuts (eg: CTRL + ') work to enter the characters. Any thoughts on how I could be doing this more efficiently?
  • adamsmith
    On a Spanish keyboard, say, é is option/alt e. I think on the French AZERTY it's option 2, on a US International keyboard its ' followed by e -- all of these work in Zotero. ctrl+' is a Word specific shortcut that might work in some other tools but isn't anything systemwide and doesn't work in Zotero
  • b0c5
    edited 21 days ago
    Hello, any updates on this request? There are often minor diacritics variations in author names, because the same author can appear slightly differently in different works (for random reasons).

    Same applies to title, not just creator (and any field, really). Just ignore diacritics when searching
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