Search with Accent Insensitive

[Luc]

I'm looking for a way to have "accent insensitive" search

ex: é  =>  e will be the same

Any clues ?

[Vlad]

Hi,

 Unfortunately we are not aware of such approach. 

Best wishes,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[Luc]

Do you have some sample with creating expression ? 
You have a sample for search within all columns... all it neeeded is to create some kind of expression.. 

[Luc]

Do you have some sample with creating expression ? 
You have a sample for search within all columns... all it neeeded is to create some kind of expression.. 

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hello Luc,

 Internally, our FilterDescriptor generates a call to String.Compare(string, string), when it needs to check the equality of two strings. In order to ignore accents when performing string comparison, you need to use a different overload. Here's an example:

string.Compare("résumé", "resume", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, CompareOptions.IgnoreNonSpace)

will return 0, indicating that the strings are equal.

 In order to plug that into our data engine, you can use our generic FilterDescriptor class like so:

var descriptor = new FilterDescriptor<BusinessObject>();
descriptor.FilteringExpression = dataObject =>
    string.Compare(dataObject.MyAccentedStringProperty,
        "nonAccentedValue",
        CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
        CompareOptions.IgnoreNonSpace) == 0;

 You can even create your own kind of FilterDescriptor by implementing the IFilterDescriptor interface and constructing the filtering expression manually, similar to this article in our documentation.

All the best,
Yavor Georgiev
the Telerik team

[Luc]

Thank!!!!!!!