//COMEÇA: O SEARCH_SLIM /* New from Rob Nitti, who credits * http://bytes.com/groups/javascript/145532-replace-french-characters-form-inp * The code finds accented vowels and replaces them with their unaccented version. */ function stripVowelAccent(str) { var rExps=[ /[\xC0-\xC2]/g, /[\xE0-\xE2]/g, /[\xC8-\xCA]/g, /[\xE8-\xEB]/g, /[\xCC-\xCE]/g, /[\xEC-\xEE]/g, /[\xD2-\xD4]/g, /[\xF2-\xF4]/g, /[\xD9-\xDB]/g, /[\xF9-\xFB]/g ]; var repChar=['A','a','E','e','I','i','O','o','U','u']; for(var i=0; i