Accentuated characters in url

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
If you add the transliterated segment to the database the vendée searchterm will search for vendée and vendee at the same time. You can't be sure if the one that inputs the word enters it correctly accented, this will cause wrong results looking for the right accented searchterm.

Most people will enter the searchterm in the search box and not in the locationbar. The url as searchbox is a secondary way not the primary way. Are people really going to complain if they see site.com/search/vendee as url if they searched using the search box? I think most people won't even notice.

If you use url_title you loose the whole character so i think transliterating is a good compromise.