>>YES! I definitively second Alex idea.
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>>This is a feature I love on Google. It handles diacritical marks perfectly. You can search Salías and get matches like Salias (no accent). Moreover, you can search for Salias (no accent) and get Salías (with accent) matches also.
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>>I gues you can get that with a flattened name field (beside the current one), where you do a ChrTran() replacing all the accented chars by their plain counteparts, and apply the same to the seached name.
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>>Great feature for such a Universal web site lie this.
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>I'll have to see if I can support that within the current infrastructure. Otherwise, I'll have to add another field and create a secondary index on with content without accent.

I guess having a secondary field (or fields, if you store first and last name) is the key. This way you can do the redux cleanly. Otherwise, you should have to put a very complex index expression that could turn out to be a bit slow, although maybe not noticeable.

Let us know how it goes,