# Searching with lithuanian letters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-lithuanian-letters/311980>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 12, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-lithuanian-letters/311980 "2022-08-12T06:07:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kimblis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@Kimblis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kimblis)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-lithuanian-letters/311980/1 "2022-08-12T06:07:46Z")

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Hey y'all, I need some help- I'm implementing search which is being mainly used by Lithuanians (but not only), and as you probably know we have letters like ą, č, ž and etc, which a lot of us don't always use haha, we often use equivalents of a, c and z instead. So if we have words Dzipas and Džipas (one with z other with ž), how can I make search to return both of those despite of the letter I type?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-lithuanian-letters/311980/2 "2022-08-12T06:24:29Z")

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Welcome.

Have a look at [ASCII folding token filter | Elasticsearch Guide [8.3] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-asciifolding-tokenfilter.html)

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**Author:** ![Kimblis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@Kimblis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kimblis)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-lithuanian-letters/311980/3 "2022-08-12T10:09:08Z")

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I'm not sure if I'm using it correcly, but I added it to my index settings, now it looks something like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/4/84fc9b17dc83da25b68ed73bab321f1faf638496.png)

Am I missing something? Since it does not work for my autosuggest 😃

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**Author:** ![Kimblis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@Kimblis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kimblis)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-lithuanian-letters/311980/4 "2022-08-12T10:21:23Z")

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Uff, nevermind, changed name of `standard_asciifolding` to `custom_asciifolding` (so there wouldn't be duplicates with original? ) and added trim and lowercase to filters, somehow now it works wonders \<3

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-lithuanian-letters/311980/5 "2022-09-09T10:22:00Z")

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