From 277df57e469a997611c8c7512e47dbdfcf9a2405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Meutel <meutel@meutel.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:38:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Transliterate accented characters in search

---
 app/helpers/preferences_helper.rb | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/helpers/preferences_helper.rb b/app/helpers/preferences_helper.rb
index d27f8bf..19fa664 100644
--- a/app/helpers/preferences_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/preferences_helper.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ module PreferencesHelper
 		end
 		if @preference.term
 			conditions.push "#{sort_col} LIKE ?"
-			params.push "%#{@preference.term}%"
+      search_term = ActiveSupport::Inflector.transliterate(@preference.term)
+			params.push "%#{search_term}%"
 		end
 		[ conditions.join(" AND ") ] + params
 	end