angularjs search and ignore spanish characters

Question

I\'m adding a simple sort on a page. The idea is to search products. These products are written in spanish language and has accents. For example: \'Jamón\'.

Here is

Answer 1

Here is a slightly enhanced version (not counting the extra foreign characters it searches for, of course) of the above. I put it straight into my controller and it allowed me to search all the data that I wanted to search. Thanks Bernardo for your input into this!

Hope it helps somebody out.

 function removeAccents(value) {
    return value
         .replace(/á/g, 'a') 
         .replace(/â/g, 'a')            
         .replace(/é/g, 'e')
         .replace(/è/g, 'e') 
         .replace(/ê/g, 'e')
         .replace(/í/g, 'i')
         .replace(/ï/g, 'i')
         .replace(/ì/g, 'i')
         .replace(/ó/g, 'o')
         .replace(/ô/g, 'o')
         .replace(/ú/g, 'u')
         .replace(/ü/g, 'u')
         .replace(/ç/g, 'c')
         .replace(/ß/g, 's');
}

$scope.ignoreAccents = function (item) {
if ($scope.search) {
var search = removeAccents($scope.search).toLowerCase();
var find = removeAccents(item.name + ' ' + item.description+ ' ' + item.producer+ ' ' +        item.region).toLowerCase();
return find.indexOf(search) > -1;
}
return true;
};