Matching from Contacts should be fuzzy wrt accented characters

[teancom]

Summary:

 

I often use Alfred to search my contacts to pull out information like phone numbers. I have friends with accents in their name. If I don't type in the character(s) with the accents, Alfred doesn't find them.

 

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Add someone to your contacts with an accented character in their name. I will use Renée in this example.

2. Invoke Alfred and start typing in the word Renee (no accent)

3. Renée is shown in the live results until you type the second 'e'

 

Expected Results:

Alfred would match 'e' to è,é,ê,ë,ě,ę, the way Contacts.app does (screenshot attached).

 

[Andrew]

@teancom Alfred uses the macOS Contacts API by default which doesn't support diacritics. You can switch Alfred to using the Spotlight metadata to search instead, which should then work as expected:

 

Alfred Preferences > Features > Contacts > Advanced > Use Spotlight metadata for searching contacts

 

Let me know how you get on

[teancom]

Perfect! Fixed it up like a charm, and it's still fast. What are the downsides/possible repercussions of using the Spotlight metadata instead? Just so that I'm aware and don't file another dupe bug. 😄

[Andrew]

@teancom The Contacts API is consistent performance, and more reliable... however, I've been using the Spotlight metadata mode on my Mac for years and haven't seen a problem.

 

Cheers,

Andrew