diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/EpisodeMetrics.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/EpisodeMetrics.java
index 1e9f03a5..c244c659 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/EpisodeMetrics.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/EpisodeMetrics.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import net.sourceforge.filebot.web.Episode;
 import net.sourceforge.filebot.web.EpisodeFormat;
 import net.sourceforge.filebot.web.Movie;
 
+import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;
+
 
 public enum EpisodeMetrics implements SimilarityMetric {
 	
@@ -351,6 +353,7 @@ public enum EpisodeMetrics implements SimilarityMetric {
 	}
 	
 	private static final Map<Object, String> transformCache = synchronizedMap(new HashMap<Object, String>(64, 4));
+	private static final Transliterator transliterator = Transliterator.getInstance("Any-Latin;Latin-ASCII;[:Diacritic:]remove");
 	
 	
 	protected static String normalizeObject(Object object) {
@@ -375,6 +378,10 @@ public enum EpisodeMetrics implements SimilarityMetric {
 		// remove checksums, any [...] or (...)
 		name = removeEmbeddedChecksum(name);
 		
+		synchronized (transliterator) {
+			name = transliterator.transform(name);
+		}
+		
 		// remove/normalize special characters
 		name = normalizePunctuation(name);
 		
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/NameSimilarityMetric.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/NameSimilarityMetric.java
index 5346e71d..b85a8312 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/NameSimilarityMetric.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/NameSimilarityMetric.java
@@ -7,15 +7,24 @@ import uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics.AbstractStringMetric;
 import uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics.QGramsDistance;
 import uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.tokenisers.TokeniserQGram3;
 
+import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;
+
 
 public class NameSimilarityMetric implements SimilarityMetric {
 	
 	private final AbstractStringMetric metric;
+	private final Transliterator transliterator;
 	
 	
 	public NameSimilarityMetric() {
 		// QGramsDistance with a QGram tokenizer seems to work best for similarity of names
-		metric = new QGramsDistance(new TokeniserQGram3());
+		this(new QGramsDistance(new TokeniserQGram3()), Transliterator.getInstance("Any-Latin;Latin-ASCII;[:Diacritic:]remove"));
+	}
+	
+	
+	public NameSimilarityMetric(AbstractStringMetric metric, Transliterator transliterator) {
+		this.metric = metric;
+		this.transliterator = transliterator;
 	}
 	
 	
@@ -29,6 +38,11 @@ public class NameSimilarityMetric implements SimilarityMetric {
 		// use string representation
 		String name = object.toString();
 		
+		// apply transliterator
+		if (transliterator != null) {
+			name = transliterator.transform(name);
+		}
+		
 		// normalize separators
 		name = normalizePunctuation(name);
 		
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/web/LocalSearch.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/web/LocalSearch.java
index f9b7c492..3239b09f 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/web/LocalSearch.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/web/LocalSearch.java
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 import uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics.AbstractStringMetric;
 import uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics.QGramsDistance;
 
+import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;
+
 
 public class LocalSearch<T> {
 	
@@ -30,6 +32,8 @@ public class LocalSearch<T> {
 	private float resultMinimumSimilarity = 0.5f;
 	private int resultSetSize = 20;
 	
+	private final Transliterator transliterator = Transliterator.getInstance("Any-Latin;Latin-ASCII;[:Diacritic:]remove");
+	
 	private final List<T> objects;
 	private final List<Set<String>> fields;
 	
@@ -138,7 +142,7 @@ public class LocalSearch<T> {
 	
 	protected String normalize(String value) {
 		// normalize separator, normalize case and trim
-		return normalizePunctuation(value).toLowerCase();
+		return normalizePunctuation(transliterator.transform(value)).toLowerCase();
 	}
 	
 }
diff --git a/test/net/sourceforge/filebot/web/IMDbClientTest.java b/test/net/sourceforge/filebot/web/IMDbClientTest.java
index a326da3f..739d6d55 100644
--- a/test/net/sourceforge/filebot/web/IMDbClientTest.java
+++ b/test/net/sourceforge/filebot/web/IMDbClientTest.java
@@ -48,6 +48,28 @@ public class IMDbClientTest {
 	}
 	
 	
+	@Test
+	public void searchMovie4() throws Exception {
+		List<Movie> results = imdb.searchMovie("Heat", null);
+		Movie movie = results.get(0);
+		
+		assertEquals("Heat", movie.getName());
+		assertEquals(1995, movie.getYear());
+		assertEquals(113277, movie.getImdbId(), 0);
+	}
+	
+	
+	@Test
+	public void searchMovie5() throws Exception {
+		List<Movie> results = imdb.searchMovie("Det sjunde inseglet", null);
+		Movie movie = results.get(0);
+		
+		assertEquals("The Seventh Seal", movie.getName());
+		assertEquals(1957, movie.getYear());
+		assertEquals(50976, movie.getImdbId(), 0);
+	}
+	
+	
 	@Test
 	public void searchMovieRedirect() throws Exception {
 		List<Movie> results = imdb.searchMovie("(500) Days of Summer (2009)", null);