Anki’s search functionality does not currently support ignoring accents or formatting outside the sort field due to technical reasons, but it is something I’d like to address in the future.
I found this old topic and wonder if the time for this has come 
The ignore accent addon doesnt work very well and nc: is incompatible with w: on top of having to type it on every search
Would it be possible to add a toggle somewhere? pretty please?
A preferences option to ignore accents should become available in the next version.
It works with simple unqualified searches ("مرحبا") and word boundary searches ("w:مرحبا") for now.
Wow, thank you so much
This is pure gold!!
I think I suggested the ‘ignore accents’ about ten years ago in the old forum. Without success. Only the nc: syntax (no combining) had been introduced meanwhile which ist not very comfortable when you have to search for words with or w/o accents. I never thought this option would ever been implemented… 
But anyway, thank you for making this happen in 2025! 
BTW My second improvement proposal long time ago was to introduce a donation possibility for Anki… Has this been realized, too?
This was posted in 2022. The feature was added in 2.1.50.
As far as donations – How can I donate? - Anki FAQs .
This has been posted by me in 2020. Ok, not 10 years ago. (I requested this feature in the AnkiDroid forum, first. Then I asked Damien directly.)
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