diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/common/custom-fields-dropdown/custom-fields-dropdown.component.ts b/src-ui/src/app/components/common/custom-fields-dropdown/custom-fields-dropdown.component.ts
index b0fcd48b8..ac7b3a541 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/common/custom-fields-dropdown/custom-fields-dropdown.component.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/common/custom-fields-dropdown/custom-fields-dropdown.component.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import {
 import { CustomFieldsService } from 'src/app/services/rest/custom-fields.service'
 import { ToastService } from 'src/app/services/toast.service'
 import { pngxPopperOptions } from 'src/app/utils/popper-options'
+import { matchesSearchText } from 'src/app/utils/text-search'
 import { LoadingComponentWithPermissions } from '../../loading-component/loading.component'
 import { CustomFieldEditDialogComponent } from '../edit-dialog/custom-field-edit-dialog/custom-field-edit-dialog.component'
 
@@ -69,9 +70,7 @@ export class CustomFieldsDropdownComponent extends LoadingComponentWithPermissio
 
   public get filteredFields(): CustomField[] {
     return this.unusedFields.filter(
-      (f) =>
-        !this.filterText ||
-        f.name.toLowerCase().includes(this.filterText.toLowerCase())
+      (f) => !this.filterText || matchesSearchText(f.name, this.filterText)
     )
   }
 
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/pipes/filter.pipe.ts b/src-ui/src/app/pipes/filter.pipe.ts
index 90ac3da1c..a70556f10 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/pipes/filter.pipe.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/pipes/filter.pipe.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core'
 import { MatchingModel } from '../data/matching-model'
+import { matchesSearchText } from '../utils/text-search'
 
 @Pipe({
   name: 'filter',
@@ -21,9 +22,7 @@ export class FilterPipe implements PipeTransform {
               typeof item[key] === 'string' || typeof item[key] === 'number'
           )
       return keys.some((key) => {
-        return String(item[key])
-          .toLowerCase()
-          .includes(searchText.toLowerCase())
+        return matchesSearchText(item[key], searchText)
       })
     })
   }
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/utils/text-search.spec.ts b/src-ui/src/app/utils/text-search.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fdf6e55c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/utils/text-search.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import { matchesSearchText } from './text-search'
+
+describe('text search utilities', () => {
+  it('matches text accent-insensitively', () => {
+    expect(matchesSearchText('R\u00e9sum\u00e9', 'resume')).toBeTruthy()
+    expect(matchesSearchText('S\u00f8ren', 'soren')).toBeTruthy()
+    expect(matchesSearchText('\u0152uvre', 'oeuvre')).toBeTruthy()
+    expect(matchesSearchText('Invoice', 'receipt')).toBeFalsy()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/utils/text-search.ts b/src-ui/src/app/utils/text-search.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d8d8dd414
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/utils/text-search.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+const EXTRA_DIACRITIC_REPLACEMENTS: Record<string, string> = {
+  '\u00c6': 'AE',
+  '\u00e6': 'ae',
+  '\u00d0': 'D',
+  '\u00f0': 'd',
+  '\u00d8': 'O',
+  '\u00f8': 'o',
+  '\u00de': 'Th',
+  '\u00fe': 'th',
+  '\u0110': 'D',
+  '\u0111': 'd',
+  '\u0131': 'i',
+  '\u0141': 'L',
+  '\u0142': 'l',
+  '\u0152': 'OE',
+  '\u0153': 'oe',
+  '\u00df': 'ss',
+}
+
+// ng-select has a similar private helper stripSpecialChars, but we can't use it
+const EXTRA_DIACRITICS_PATTERN = new RegExp(
+  `[${Object.keys(EXTRA_DIACRITIC_REPLACEMENTS).join('')}]`,
+  'g'
+)
+
+function normalizeSearchText(value: unknown): string {
+  return String(value ?? '')
+    .normalize('NFD')
+    .replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, '')
+    .replace(
+      EXTRA_DIACRITICS_PATTERN,
+      (char) => EXTRA_DIACRITIC_REPLACEMENTS[char] ?? char
+    )
+    .toLocaleLowerCase()
+}
+
+export function matchesSearchText(
+  value: unknown,
+  searchText: unknown
+): boolean {
+  return normalizeSearchText(value).includes(normalizeSearchText(searchText))
+}