Changing the autocomplete search to accept text without accents to match options with accents (#2842)

* Changing the autocomplete search to accept text without accents to match options with accents

* lint fix

* Added upcoming-release-notes

packages/desktop-client/src/components/autocomplete/Autocomplete.tsx

@@ -92,7 +92,16 @@ export function defaultFilterSuggestion<T extends Item>(
   suggestion: T,
   value: string,
 ) {
-  return getItemName(suggestion).toLowerCase().includes(value.toLowerCase());
+  return getItemName(suggestion)
+    .toLowerCase()
+    .normalize('NFD')
+    .replace(/\p{Diacritic}/gu, '')
+    .includes(
+      value
+        .toLowerCase()
+        .normalize('NFD')
+        .replace(/\p{Diacritic}/gu, ''),
+    );
 }
 
 function defaultFilterSuggestions<T extends Item>(

upcoming-release-notes/2842.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+category: Enhancements
+authors: [lelemm]
+---
+
+Enhanced autocomplete for languages with accents like Portuguese. Matches search queries regardless of accents.