Normalize accented chars. in product search

pos_accented_search/__init__.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

pos_accented_search/__openerp__.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+{
+    'name': "pos_accented_search",
+
+    'summary': """
+        Better product search in POS. Accented characters like é are normalized.""",
+
+    'description': """
+        This add-on make pos product search insensitive to accented characters in the product
+        name. For instance, café will match both cafe and café.  
+    """,
+
+    'author': "Le Nid",
+    'website': "http://www.lenid.ch",
+    'license': 'AGPL-3',
+    'category': 'Point of Sale',
+    'version': '0.1',
+    'depends': ['point_of_sale'],
+    'data': [
+        'views/templates.xml',
+    ],
+}

pos_accented_search/static/src/js/db.js

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+odoo.define('pos_accented_search', function (require) {
+
+    "use strict";
+     var db = require("point_of_sale.DB");
+     db.include({
+
+        remove_accented_characters: function(product){
+            return product.normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "").replace(/[\u0152-\u0153]/g, "oe")
+        },
+
+        _product_search_string: function(product){
+            return this.remove_accented_characters(this._super(product));
+        },
+
+        search_product_in_category: function(category_id, query){
+            return this._super(category_id, this.remove_accented_characters(query))
+        }
+     });
+
+     return db;
+
+});

pos_accented_search/views/templates.xml

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+<odoo>
+    <data>
+
+	<template id="assets_backend" name="pos_accented_search" inherit_id="point_of_sale.assets">
+        	<xpath expr="." position="inside">
+			<script type="text/javascript" src="/pos_accented_search/static/src/js/db.js"></script>
+        	</xpath>
+	</template>
+    </data>
+</odoo>