HubL operations not supporting accented letters?

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I have an if statement checking if a certain tag is found within an array. The if statement works perfectly for the English side of our website but when working with French it seems to have an issue.
I realised it was only missfiring for the tags that included letters with accents! Here is an example:

{% set myTopics = ['Employés', 'Gestion', "Culture", 'Stratégie', 'Produit'] %}
{% set theTag = "Stratégie" %}

{% if theTag in myTopics %}
 //do a thing...
{% endif %}

When theTag = “Culture”, “Produit” or “Gestion” the operation works as intended, when its = “Employés” or “Stratégie” the operation fails even though the variable is clearly within the array.

Is this normal? Is there some sort of filter I could use to ignore the accents?
Our blog & website is bilingual so I really need to find a solution to this issue!

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Hey there @EPerreault :waving_hand: Thanks for your question!

This is known behavior with HubL and special characters. Have you tried utilizing a couple of HubL filters? Specifically lower and regex_replace?
Here’s a quick example you can test with and tweak according to your needs:

{% set myTopics = ['Employés', 'Gestion', "Culture", 'Stratégie', 'Produit'] %}
{% set theTag = "Stratégie" %}

{% if theTag|lower|regex_replace('[éè]', 'e') in myTopics|map(m => m|lower|regex_replace('[éè]', 'e')) %}
{# do something #}
{% endif %}

Have fun testing! — Jaycee