very short question about the handling of umlaut and other unicode characters. Is it possible to make them searchable via their ascii-"equivalent" (e.g. a for ä)? Or can that only be done by the pdf viewer(and its search engine)?
As in the example below, searching for "naive" only turns up the second, searching for Osaka only shows first.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
na\"ive
naive
Osaka
\=Osaka
\end{document}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}. And then it depends a bit on the pdf viewer. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 13 '19 at 20:25\usepackage{accsupp}but it doesn't seem to provide a good solution either. Best possibility I found so far was usingpdf2textand theniconv -f utf8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT; although that returns"afor ä; if anyone knows how to just get from äöü -> aou etc. please let me know. – user179444 Jan 13 '19 at 21:23\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}If I try with Skim, it doesn't find “naïve”; Adobe Acrobat Reader does. – egreg Jan 13 '19 at 22:44