Shop search that finds «παπούτσια» when customers type «παπουτσια»

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If SAR is already in your AI app, this is enough:

What happens

1. The AI app asks the database what the searched columns already treat as equal, and searches for words from your published titles typed without accents, with WordPress's search and with WooCommerce's product search in wp-admin.
2. The verdict is one of: finds them regardless, partly, accents matter, or no samples to test. Many databases already ignore accents; then no fix is offered and nothing changes.
3. Where folding would help, switching it on waits for your approval in SAR. Each Greek word then matches with or without its accent and with ς or σ at its end, in the search box, the shop's product search, the REST API and the product search in wp-admin. It is refused where the database already does this.
4. Up to 4 Greek words a search are folded; excluded words, exact matches, quoted phrases and WooCommerce's product pickers are left as they are. Each Greek word costs up to 16 times the comparisons, so on a site with tens of thousands of posts, try a search before and after.
5. Folding can be undone for 30 days.

Approvals involved

Worked out from the tools this recipe uses.

• wordpress_greek_search_checkCheck Greek searchNone
• wordpress_set_greek_search_foldingSwitch Greek search folding on or offApproval

What you get

Customers who type «παπουτσια» find your «παπούτσια», or you learn that your search already does this and nothing needed to change.