Some languages use cyrillic letters that are not generally widespread across many other languages, but are a modification of a more common letter- pretty much like an accent, but they are not recognized as such in Anki. It’s probably due to those letters not having great support in general. I have b…

н should find ң, њ, ӈ, ԩ It’s a matter of diacritical marks, which modify a symbol, and another matter of a symbol that only looks similar, but for some reason you want to find it. There are Russian symbols for “и” and “й,” and they’re not the same as the diacritical mark “й й”—there are two sym…

I suppose that’s fair! I treated them as accents because it works like that on Wiktionary, and because their latin equivalents translate to things like ñ, ü, ū, ğ… And I add their latin equivalents, in my cards, so i can find мағына by typing magyna despite it being stored as mağyna, but I can’t do …

Related: [image] Search using nc: does not find Polish diacritic letter L or Croatian diacritic letter D Help This might be a problem with some library rather than Anki itself. How is nc: implemented? Languages tested so far: Slovakian Hungarian Czech Latvia…

Regarding searching in the Anki desktop app, I recently added the ability to search using accent marks everywhere in the add-on. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1334324384 If you want to enter: н should find ң, њ, ӈ, ԩ And there it found similar ones… well, it seems a slightly different algorithm…

Support for searching non-russian cyrillic letters with accents

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abdo January 30, 2026, 6:11pm 4

We can probably add special cases for cyrillic letters like it’s done in this PR:

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Support for searching non-russian cyrillic letters with accents

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