When using jQuery DataTables is it possible to do accent-insensitive searches when using the filter? For instance, when I put the 'e' character, I'd like to search every word with 'e' or 'é', 'è'.
Something that came to mind is normalizing the strings and putting them into a separate, hidden column but that wouldn't solve the alphabetizing issue.
EDIT
I tried the following:
$.fn.dataTableExt.ofnSearch = function ( data ) {return ! data ?'' : typeof data === 'string' ? data .replace( /\n/g, '' ) .replace( /á/g, 'a' ) .replace( /é/g, 'e' ) .replace( /í/g, 'i' ) .replace( /ó/g, 'o' ) .replace( /ú/g, 'u' ) .replace( /ê/g, 'e' ) .replace( /î/g, 'i' ) .replace( /ô/g, 'o' ) .replace( /è/g, 'e' ) .replace( /ï/g, 'i' ) .replace( /ü/g, 'u' ) .replace( /ç/g, 'c' ) : data;};
