Comment 35 for bug 1501781

After a brief email exchange with Dan, I've decided to take over finishing this branch.

Our current thinking is that we'll keep the unaccent extension for PostgreSQL, but lose the dependency on Text::Unaccent::PurePerl.

The Open-ILS Perl method to unaccent strings will be implemented to call the database function through a cstore JSON query. This way, we'll have consistent unaccent behavior and will not add a dependency on a new Perl module.

I would have less objection to backporting the branch in this new form, but I still leave that question open to discussion.