[MarkLogic Dev General] Unicode flattening for non combined characters.

[Peter Hickman]

Our client has data such as "Jacob Ørn" that they want to search for. 
The are expecting that searching for "orn" would match "Ørn" as they see 
"Ø" as an accented character. According to the Unicode Standard 4.0 
(always a good read :)) U+00D8 "Latin Capital Letter O With Stroke" is 
not a combined character and therefore is not matched by "O" when doing 
a case and diacritical insensitive search. This is what I expect and 
understand as a developer.

Is there some way of getting client's expected behaviour? I suspect that 
the "Ø" is only one of several characters that have this problem, such 
as the "Ł" (U+0141) in "Łodz".

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Peter Hickman.

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