Input field string with accents (é, è, ô, etc.)

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Hi everybody!

I’m using a function connected to Google Places API that autocompletes addresses based on user input.
It works pretty well, except when you input a character with an accent in the input field. In the console I then get the message that the .value of the input field is undefined. Of course it messes up the results of the autocomplete:

  • When the address starts with an accent it does not show any suggestion
    ex:
    input: échirolles
    suggestions:
  • When the address contains an accent, it stops autocompleting at the last character before the accent
    ex:
    input: hôpital
    suggestions: Houston, Texas (so only based on the first letter H)

Does anybody knows a way to make the input field recognize characters with accents ?

Here is the part of my code:

export function inputAddress_input ( event ) {
autocomplete ( $w ( ‘#inputAddress’ ). value )
. then (( res ) => {

let predictions = res . predictions ; // For simplicity we put the predictions in a new variable
let suggestions = ; // We should create an empty array for the suggestions
predictions . forEach ( function ( prediction ) {
let item = { “_id” : getRandStr (), “address” : prediction . description };
suggestions . push ( item );
});
$w ( “#repeaterSuggestions” ). data = ; // clear the repeater contents
$w ( “#repeaterSuggestions” ). data = suggestions ; // add the new suggestions to the repeater
$w ( “#repeaterSuggestions” ). expand (); // Repeater is full now, let’s show it.
console . log ( Error )
console . log ( $w ( ‘#inputAddress’ ). value );
})
}

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Thank you very much !

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Actually found the solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5700636/using-javascript-to-perform-text-matches-with-without-accented-characters

So I added autocomplete ( $w ( ‘#inputAddress’ ). value . normalize ( ‘NFD’ ). replace ( /[\u0300-\u036f]/ g , “” ))

works perfectly!

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Hi, how can i apply the code to Wix?