Comment 5 for bug 223586

This is controversial. I'm a French speaking user, and actually like it the way Do works right now.

For example, I have one folder in my home called "études" (studies) and another one called "entrant" (incoming... it's my "inbox" for my downloads from the browser). With the current behaviour, when I type "é" I only have entries like "études" (the most used one), Économiseur d'écran (screensaver), a folder called "économie", and so on. When I type "e", I have entries like "entrant" or "Enregistreur de son".

Typing accents isn't a concern, they're directly available on the keyboard – no need for dead keys on a French (or Swiss French, in my case) keyboard.

Now it's true that for some items you might not know or remember whether they're typed with or without an accent. So a possible solution for me would be: not making a difference between e, é, è, ê in the search, but making one when remembering the prefered actions... I have no clue, whether that's possible. I think it's probably a lot of work for not much. Plus you would have to research which languages and letters are concerned (I know that in German people would be annoyed if "u" and "ü" were recognised as the same letter, since they are different, especially in the sound).

I don't think this should be "fixed".