[JS CS3] e é è ë a à o ô, just all the same

Question

Hi all,
b I have a indesign document with several pages.
There are business cards.
i As people are recruited when other move, the order of these pages is always moving. So when I have to correct a data, I have to seek for the page.
That's why
b I wrote a script for my own purpose that
requests me for the name i am asking and then
b point to the page,
so I don't bother seeking anymore.
However, and that's the goal of this topic,
b I have to deal with accents.
In france, people may have accentuation in their names and jerome is not the same string as Jérôme.
b So, I would like to make my life simple and then just enter jerome and then the script should consider that jerome could be jérome, jèrome, jêrome, jërome, jérôme...
So it's not only checking for a string to exist but also any declinations that should be made with accents.
b Is it that conceivable ?
Thanks a lot for advice
Loic

Answer 1

Yeah Peter, everything is ok now thanks to your help
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var p = prompt("Entrez un nom","","Cartes de visite 1.0");
var capital = p.slice(0,1);
var end = p.slice(1,p.length);
var newcapital = capital.toUpperCase();
var np = newcapital.concat(end);
np = np.replace (/a/g, "[[=a=]]");
np = np.replace (/e/g, "[[=e=]]");
np = np.replace (/i/g, "[[=i=]]");
np = np.replace (/u/g, "[[=u=]]");
np = np.replace (/o/g, "[[=o=]]");
np = np.replace (/c/g, "[[=c=]]");
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = np;
f = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
if (f.length > 0)
// show the spread where the first name was found
//app.activeWindow.activeSpread = f[0].parentTextFrames[0].parent.parent;
app.activeWindow.activePage = f[0].parentTextFrames[0].parent;
I am just annoyed when some item is grouped so the parent does not give page but group and the script fails. I could handle this but I prefered ungrouping the items.
Thanks for all your help.
Loic