This! Just pass both the content and query through unidecode and some simple filter that removes stop words and cruft in the content, works wonders for autocom

This! Just pass both the content and query through unidecode and some simple filter that removes stop words and cruft in the content, works wonders for autocomplete. Applying that idea to true full-text search is somewhat more involved (you have to somehow produce a stemmer that works on the output of unidecode), but doable and it works.