Why so f...... difficult to search for Polish beers?

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Message Bryne P places 1617 º 11:43 Sun 10/2/2016 Kludge.... a word I never learned at school in Norway. But, I guess the Untappd-geeks are even more convinced now that RateBeer is yesterday’s technology. Common people want it easy!
Message DietPepsican P beers 1592 º places 63 º 11:49 Sun 10/2/2016 Originally posted by 3fourths Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Wrezel is now resolving with a fix for the ę and ż characters
Message Marko P admin beers 17776 º places 866 º 11:57 Sun 10/2/2016 Great job Mike! :D However, the z-ish letter doesn’t resolve when it’s capital (Zywiec beers)

Message gunnar beers 14335 º places 1096 º 13:48 Sun 10/2/2016 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM https://youtu.be/yuTMWgOduFM
Message Travlr beers 33887 º places 4583 º 13:53 Sun 10/2/2016 btw "obvious kludge" is redundant isn’t it?
Message humlelala beers 1377 º places 89 º 02:31 Mon 10/3/2016 Originally posted by Marko However, the z-ish letter doesn’t resolve when it’s capital (Zywiec beers) Could there possibly be some functionality from this webpage that could be useful as a general solution to accent stripping rather than handling it on a case by case basis? https://www.charset.org/remove-accents
Message Nightfall beers 1313 º places 45 º 03:10 Mon 10/3/2016 The problem is even bigger (and it is to be expected) with languages having a different alphabet and not just some characters that differ. For example Greek : http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/931972955959-solo--skotidi/401860/ most of us try to enter both the greek and the "greeklish" name so that it can be found. But when you enter the greek characters (unicode) in the search field it resolves to nothing. I don’t know if it would help the developers, but I could send you an excel with the html codes for greek characters and what they resolve to in latin one, in order to create a function to replace greek characters with latin ones. Maybe with the help of other native speakers we could create something similar with unicode characters of other languages ?

Message hawthorne00 P beers 8459 º places 63 º 05:02 Mon 10/3/2016 Originally posted by Travlr btw "obvious kludge" is redundant isn’t it? Those of us from the younger set lack your familiarity with MacGyver.
Message omhper P beers 40214 º places 332 º 06:08 Mon 10/3/2016 Originally posted by Nightfall The problem is even bigger (and it is to be expected) with languages having a different alphabet and not just some characters that differ. For example Greek : http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/931972955959-solo--skotidi/401860/ most of us try to enter both the greek and the "greeklish" name so that it can be found. But when you enter the greek characters (unicode) in the search field it resolves to nothing. I don’t know if it would help the developers, but I could send you an excel with the html codes for greek characters and what they resolve to in latin one, in order to create a function to replace greek characters with latin ones. Maybe with the help of other native speakers we could create something similar with unicode characters of other languages ? Non-Latin letter alphabets have never been officially supported afaik. They should always be translitterated. (Lately we have however accepted to have other alphabets in parallell as a help)
Message Radek Kliber P beers 8151 º places 419 º 08:54 Mon 10/3/2016 Thanks!