"Sunspot" Gem makes distinction between UTF-8 chars

Question

In a Rails app I started using sunspot => https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot/blob/master/README.md

Everything went OK until I noticed this (taken from the rails-console):

1.9.3p194 :002 > MyModel.search{fulltext "leon"}.results
=> [#<MyModel id: 16, name: "Leon">]
1.9.3p194 :003 > MyModel.search{fulltext "león"}.results
=> [#<MyModel id: 18, name: "León">]

How can I tell the system not to make distinction between "leon" and "león" (I want smth like search{fulltext "leon"} => [#MyModel id: 16 ... , #MyModel id: 18...])

I've been looking for this problem and I've found every time the same response:

With this line in Gemfile works meanwhile the next release of rsolr: gem 'rsolr', :git => "https://github.com/mwmitchell/rsolr.git"

thx

Answer 1

Thx for the responses. At least I've solved it right last night with anohter idea I've taked from http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/full-text-search-in-in-rails-with-sunspot-and-solr/

the idea is in Restaurant.rb

text :name do 
  self.name.my_normalize
end

and the function

to_s.mb_chars.normalize(:kd).gsub(/[^\x00-\x7F]/,'').downcase

that line works with strings like "äáàÁÄÀ" --- "aaaaaa"