diff --git a/src/Examine.Lucene/Analyzers/CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer.cs b/src/Examine.Lucene/Analyzers/CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer.cs
index dee785db8..a5535b9b9 100644
--- a/src/Examine.Lucene/Analyzers/CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer.cs
+++ b/src/Examine.Lucene/Analyzers/CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer.cs
@@ -15,10 +15,13 @@ namespace Examine.Lucene.Analyzers
     public sealed class CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer : Analyzer
     {
         private readonly CharArraySet _stopWordsSet;
+        private readonly bool _caseInsensitive;
+        private readonly bool _ignoreLanguageAccents;
 
         public CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer(CharArraySet stopWords)
+            : this(stopWords, true, true)
         {
-            _stopWordsSet = stopWords;
+            
         }
 
         public CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer()
@@ -26,6 +29,13 @@ public CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer()
         {
         }
 
+        public CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer(CharArraySet stopWords, bool caseInsensitive, bool ignoreLanguageAccents)
+        {
+            _stopWordsSet = stopWords;
+            _caseInsensitive = caseInsensitive;
+            _ignoreLanguageAccents = ignoreLanguageAccents;
+        }
+
         protected override TokenStreamComponents CreateComponents(
             string fieldName,
             TextReader reader)
@@ -37,7 +47,15 @@ protected override TokenStreamComponents CreateComponents(
 
             TokenStream result = new StandardFilter(LuceneInfo.CurrentVersion, tokenizer);
 
-            result = new LowerCaseFilter(LuceneInfo.CurrentVersion, result);
+            if (_caseInsensitive)
+            {
+                result = new LowerCaseFilter(LuceneInfo.CurrentVersion, result);
+            }
+
+            if (_ignoreLanguageAccents)
+            {
+                result = new ASCIIFoldingFilter(result ?? tokenizer);
+            }
 
             result = new StopFilter(LuceneInfo.CurrentVersion, result, _stopWordsSet);
 
diff --git a/src/Examine.Test/Examine.Lucene/Search/AnalyzerTests.cs b/src/Examine.Test/Examine.Lucene/Search/AnalyzerTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d8665d17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Examine.Test/Examine.Lucene/Search/AnalyzerTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+using Examine.Lucene.Analyzers;
+using Examine.Lucene.Providers;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+
+namespace Examine.Test.Examine.Lucene.Search
+{
+    [TestFixture]
+    public class AnalyzerTests : ExamineBaseTest
+    {
+        [Test]
+        public void Given_CultureInvariantWhitespaceAnalyzer_When_SearchingBothCharVariants_Then_BothAreFound()
+        {
+            var analyzer = new CultureInvariantWhitespaceAnalyzer();
+            using (var luceneDir = new RandomIdRAMDirectory())
+            using (var indexer = GetTestIndex(luceneDir, analyzer))
+            {
+                indexer.IndexItems(new[] {
+                    ValueSet.FromObject(1.ToString(), "content",
+                        new { bodyText = "Something rød something"}),
+                    ValueSet.FromObject(2.ToString(), "content",
+                        new { nodeName = "Something rod something"})
+                });
+
+                var searcher = (BaseLuceneSearcher)indexer.Searcher;
+
+                var query1 = searcher
+                    .CreateQuery("content")
+                    .Field("bodyText", "rod");
+                var results1 = query1.Execute();
+
+                var query2 = searcher
+                    .CreateQuery("content")
+                    .Field("bodyText", "rød");
+                var results2 = query1.Execute();
+
+                Assert.AreEqual(1, results1.TotalItemCount);
+            }
+        }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void Given_CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer_When_SearchingBothCharVariants_Then_BothAreFound()
+        {
+            var analyzer = new CultureInvariantStandardAnalyzer();
+            using (var luceneDir = new RandomIdRAMDirectory())
+            using (var indexer = GetTestIndex(luceneDir, analyzer))
+            {
+                indexer.IndexItems(new[] {
+                    ValueSet.FromObject(1.ToString(), "content",
+                        new { bodyText = "Something rød something"}),
+                    ValueSet.FromObject(2.ToString(), "content",
+                        new { nodeName = "Something rod something"})
+                });
+
+                var searcher = (BaseLuceneSearcher)indexer.Searcher;
+
+                var query1 = searcher
+                    .CreateQuery("content")
+                    .Field("bodyText", "rod");
+                var results1 = query1.Execute();
+
+                var query2 = searcher
+                    .CreateQuery("content")
+                    .Field("bodyText", "rød");
+                var results2 = query1.Execute();
+
+                Assert.AreEqual(1, results1.TotalItemCount);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}