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[Chris Snyder]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Andrew Yochum <andrew at plexpod.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> You can achieve that with unicode transliteration:
>     http://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/transliteration-guidelines
> Check out the PHP Iconv extension:
>     http://us.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php
>
> Hope that helps!

An example would rock this thread, Andrew.

Transliteration is non-obvious. From the GNU iconv page:

"It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a
character cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be
approximated through one or several similarly looking characters.
Transliteration is activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the
target encoding name. "

So you would need to pre-convert all of your searchable terms into
ISO-8859-1/TRANSLIT ?