How to ignore accents in Azure Search?

Question

Does Azure Search support some way of ignoring accented characters? For example, if somebody searches for e it should include é characters

Answer 1

Yes. Please use the ASCII folding analyzer on your field. To do that, set the analyzer property on your field to

analyzer:"standardasciifolding.lucene"

Alternatively, use a language specific analyzer e.g. analyzer:"fr.microsoft". To learn more about analyzers in Azure Search take a look here.

Note: Different language analyzers treat diacritic marks differently, use the Analyze API to test analyzer behavior.