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		niwri on Dec 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advent of Code Solutions I wouldn't be surprised if that behaviour was intentional.

johnfn on Dec 26, 2016 | [–]

It is intentional. It allows a search for "pokemon" to match "Pokémon".

x3n0ph3n3 on Dec 26, 2016 | [–]

It's done with case-insensitive matching based on the rules of character collation [1], but I'm struggling to find a good article on the topic.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collation

Pyppe on Dec 26, 2016 | [–]

Transliteration. See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration

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