Hello,

Thanks for your contribution! I would like to know how exactly you are using FuzzySharp such that you are running into issues. I need to better understand how users are encountering issues so that I am better equipped to solve them.

If you are using the "Extract" methods from the Process.cs class, you can provide your own "string processor". If you omit this parameter, it will by default choose the "DefaultPreProcessor", which will remove all characters not matched by alphanumeric characters in the standard English Alphabet and then call ToLower() on them.

However, if you provide your own processor function, it will use that processor function instead and skip using the "Default" one provided by FuzzySharp. This way you can define a string processor for any character set you want.

For instance, you can use var results = Process.ExtractAll("similar", new [] {"very similar", "v simliar", "super similar"}, (s) => { return Regex.Replace(s, "[^ a-zA-Z0-9а-зА-З]", " ").ToLower().Trim(); });

Let me know if this solves your issue. I will update the README to include a section regarding this issue

Hi Jake,
I use the amount of Cyrillic strings and then I run into issues.

My workaround is similar to your suggested.

method ()
{
...
var results = Process.ExtractAll(queryName, namesList, input => ProcessorFunction(input), cutoff: cutoffValue).ToList();
...
}
private static string ProcessorFunction(string input)
{
input = Regex.Replace(input, "[^ a-zA-Z0-9а-яА-Я]", " ");
input = input.ToLower();
return input.Trim();
}

But my opinion is that the native library without workaround should support Latin and Cyrillic alphabet.