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The customNormalization parameter lets you define how Algolia should transform specific characters.

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Usage

  • The input of a custom normalization must contain a single character.
  • The output of a custom normalization must have at most two characters.
  • Doesn’t apply to decomposed Unicode characters that use combining marks.
    For example:
    • You cannot normalize ü if it’s encoded as u (U+0075) + ◌̈ (U+0308).
    • You can normalize ü if it’s the represented by the character ü (U+00FC).

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Example

Current API clients

var response = await client.SetSettingsAsync(
  "ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME",
  new IndexSettings
  {
    CustomNormalization = new Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string>>
    {
      {
        "default",
        new Dictionary<string, string> { { "ä", "ae" } }
      },
    },
  }
);

IndexSettings settings = new IndexSettings();

settings.CustomNormalization =
new Dictionary>
{
  { "default", new Dictionary { {"ä", "ae"} } }
};

index.SetSettings(settings);