Ignore accents and diacritics when searching

[mirka]

Originally posted by @sdixon194:

When you search for keywords with accented characters, the app doesn't find the notes that contain those keywords written with non-accented characters (and vice versa).

Would be great to have better search functionality for accented characters.

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[illusaen]

Note: I started this (see branch unicode but didn't feel like I could do it justice in the time I have left on my rotation. Feel free to use any of my code if desired! The gif below shows what I was able to get working (namely, diacritic > normal. Normal > diacritic highlighting is a rougher issue).

Diacritic