Inaccurate person search possible with umlauts in the name?

[EnricoBeyer]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to find employees in the People Search who have umlauts in their name without explicitly searching for them. So that the People Search also returns inaccurate results for umlauts?

I have already tried to play around with a new managed property and the different settings for it, unfortunately without success.
For example: A search is made for "Joerg", but the person is entered as "Jörg". When I search for Joerg I get no hit! And vice versa.

It should not only include German umlauts but also letters such as é,è,ê,œ,ø, ç,č and so onI am happy about every tip.
@AgnesMolnar 
@MikaelSvenson 

[#2]

@EnricoBeyer are you talking about searching for people in product UX or via an API?

[#3]

Hi Mikael,
thank you for your fast response. I'm talking about product UX and use a Search Webpart like the PNP Search Webpart to configure the search query. If it would work in the Standard SharePoint Search it would be great too. 🙂
I guess then it would be a feature request. I'm wondering if it may work with something within the KQL part? Or is it only possible via API request?

[#4]

If you use SharePoint search and enable phonetic at the API level it works as expected

enablephonetic=true

In product UX o->oe both return the same person when I test.. if I use ö it seems to not work. but ø works.

Log a ticket 🙂