Unity search doesn't find "énergie" when you type "energie"

[Sébastien Pierre]

Basically, Unity search algorithm should normalize the text so that the accents are escaped: typing "é" "è" "ê" ou "ë" should have the same effect as typing "e" (you can get fancy and still prioritize the matches with the exact letter). Right now, if I'm looking for "énergie" (the energy system panel) I cannot find it if I type "energie" as the search box requires an "é". This is particularily annoying if you're using a generic search word (with no accents), as the results with accents won't show up.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1
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Date: Mon Oct 31 08:21:56 2011
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, I can't confirm the issue there using a french locale though

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 773197, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.