Chosen Widget not recognizing Macron characters for Maori words so unable to search for Nga and Ngā

[Princeknz]

Summarize your issue here.

When using the Chosen Widget for ethnicity and Iwi selection in New Zealand we are unable to search for words with a Macron and have it return word with A, Ā, a and ā in the results.

Tell us how to reproduce this issue.

1. Setup data with German and Māori as options

2. Search for Ma this should return German and Māori as options to select.

3. This happen in School names and Iwi within New Zealand

Additionally, please link to a working demo that shows the issue so we can attempt to reproduce. You can use this template as a base. Alternatively, confirm that the Chosen demo page shows the issue.

As the change is not in our live system we cannot give access to our dev environment, happy to supply screen shots on request

Expected behavior

When doing a search on the Widget it should return words that contain the macron letter as well as the non macron letter, e.g. ā and a

Actual behavior

Currently you have to search on a or ā and only get the exact matching results.

Environment

• Unsure of Chosen version

• Unsure of Jquery version

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Additional information

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[tjschuck]

This is a duplicate of #536, which has a lot more info and a few workarounds you can check out.

You can also try using this branch: #2618