chrome search in page: accented characters

Searching text inside a webpage (with ctrl-f) for an accented character, for instance è, chromium finds all occurrences of è, é and e.

Similarly, searching e finds è and é as well.

While it is an awesome function, is there an option, escape sequence or anything else to make chrome just find the typed character?

2 Answers

As far as I know, this behavior can't be disabled. You could, however, use a text search extension that behaves differently.

Type-ahead-find, for example, only finds exact matches.

Unfortunately this has been a known issue for at least a year and a half, but has not (yet?) been addressed. You can star the issue for updates.