Ignore diacritical mark of letters
My Xperia Z with original Andr. 5.0.2 doesn't ignore diacritical marks so name "Štěpán" (eng. "Stephan") cannot be found when I type" stepan". If Textra can ignore those marks, it would be awesome.
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Filip Blažek
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Please add this feature. I was about to pay for Textra and I realized it is very difficult to text to users with accented letters in their names. And there are many in the Czech language. To name a few: Řehoř, Žák, Šťastný, Čermák...
You can use Unicode decomposition to realize č = c + accent so it is indeed very easy to manage this. All dialers I used on different phones have this feature. -
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I'm not the developer, but am a programmer. Those marks are not just fancy dressing, they are physically different characters. They are called ASCII characters. some fonts use them, some do not, each font style can have a different interpretation of the ASCII codes above 128 (up to 255)
for Instance, the letter A is ASCII 65, B = 66, P = 80. 0-127 are standard on every computer. 128-255 are often unique per font. In order to "ignore" them, there would need to be a conversion table for every one of them to what they equate too. its a lot of data to have to manipulate.