diff --git a/src/components/ModalInFile.svelte b/src/components/ModalInFile.svelte
index 72e0f1b..bf865ab 100644
--- a/src/components/ModalInFile.svelte
+++ b/src/components/ModalInFile.svelte
@@ -11,10 +11,7 @@
   import { onDestroy, onMount, tick } from 'svelte'
   import { MarkdownView, Platform } from 'obsidian'
   import ModalContainer from './ModalContainer.svelte'
-  import {
-    LocatorInFileModal,
-    LocatorVaultModal,
-  } from '../components/modals'
+  import { LocatorInFileModal, LocatorVaultModal } from '../components/modals'
   import ResultItemInFile from './ResultItemInFile.svelte'
   import { Query } from '../search/query'
   import { openNote } from '../tools/notes'
@@ -51,8 +48,8 @@
   $: (async () => {
     if (searchQuery) {
       query = new Query(searchQuery, {
-        ignoreDiacritics: plugin.settings.ignoreDiacritics,
-        ignoreArabicDiacritics: plugin.settings.ignoreArabicDiacritics,
+        ignoreDiacritics: true,
+        ignoreArabicDiacritics: true,
       })
       note =
         (
@@ -163,13 +160,13 @@
 </script>
 
 <InputSearch
-  plugin="{plugin}"
-  on:input="{e => (searchQuery = e.detail)}"
+  {plugin}
+  on:input={e => (searchQuery = e.detail)}
   placeholder="Locator - File"
-  initialValue="{previousQuery}">
+  initialValue={previousQuery}>
   <div class="omnisearch-input-container__buttons">
     {#if Platform.isMobile}
-      <button on:click="{switchToVaultModal}">Vault search</button>
+      <button on:click={switchToVaultModal}>Vault search</button>
     {/if}
   </div>
 </InputSearch>
@@ -179,15 +176,15 @@
     {#each groupedOffsets as offset, i}
       <ResultItemInFile
         {plugin}
-        offset="{offset}"
-        note="{note}"
-        index="{i}"
-        selected="{i === selectedIndex}"
-        on:mousemove="{_e => (selectedIndex = i)}"
-        on:click="{evt => openSelection(evt.ctrlKey)}"
-        on:auxclick="{evt => {
+        {offset}
+        {note}
+        index={i}
+        selected={i === selectedIndex}
+        on:mousemove={_e => (selectedIndex = i)}
+        on:click={evt => openSelection(evt.ctrlKey)}
+        on:auxclick={evt => {
           if (evt.button == 1) openSelection(true)
-        }}" />
+        }} />
     {/each}
   {:else}
     <div style="text-align: center;">
diff --git a/src/components/ModalVault.svelte b/src/components/ModalVault.svelte
index c73460b..81cb9ba 100644
--- a/src/components/ModalVault.svelte
+++ b/src/components/ModalVault.svelte
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@
       cancelableQuery = null
     }
     query = new Query(searchQuery, {
-      ignoreDiacritics: plugin.settings.ignoreDiacritics,
-      ignoreArabicDiacritics: plugin.settings.ignoreArabicDiacritics,
+      ignoreDiacritics: true,
+      ignoreArabicDiacritics: true,
     })
     cancelableQuery = cancelable(
       new Promise(resolve => {
diff --git a/src/search/search-engine.ts b/src/search/search-engine.ts
index 20fcdc1..fa8aa1c 100644
--- a/src/search/search-engine.ts
+++ b/src/search/search-engine.ts
@@ -331,9 +331,7 @@ export class SearchEngine {
       results.map(async result => {
         const doc = await this.plugin.documentsRepository.getDocument(result.id)
         if (!doc) {
-          console.warn(
-            `Locator - Note "${result.id}" not in the live cache`
-          )
+          console.warn(`Locator - Note "${result.id}" not in the live cache`)
           countError(true)
         }
         return doc
@@ -349,12 +347,7 @@ export class SearchEngine {
         const title = document?.path.toLowerCase() ?? ''
         const content = (document?.cleanedContent ?? '').toLowerCase()
         return exactTerms.every(
-          q =>
-            content.includes(q) ||
-            removeDiacritics(
-              title,
-              this.plugin.settings.ignoreArabicDiacritics
-            ).includes(q)
+          q => content.includes(q) || removeDiacritics(title).includes(q)
         )
       })
     }
@@ -524,11 +517,7 @@ export class SearchEngine {
         }
         return (doc as any)[fieldName]
       },
-      processTerm: (term: string) =>
-        (this.plugin.settings.ignoreDiacritics
-          ? removeDiacritics(term, this.plugin.settings.ignoreArabicDiacritics)
-          : term
-        ).toLowerCase(),
+      processTerm: (term: string) => removeDiacritics(term).toLowerCase(),
       idField: 'path',
       fields: [
         'basename',
diff --git a/src/settings/index.ts b/src/settings/index.ts
index 3edfa81..4ab302b 100644
--- a/src/settings/index.ts
+++ b/src/settings/index.ts
@@ -100,8 +100,6 @@ export function getDefaultSettings(app: App): LocatorSettings {
     hideExcluded: false,
     recencyBoost: RecencyCutoff.Disabled,
     downrankedFoldersFilters: [] as string[],
-    ignoreDiacritics: true,
-    ignoreArabicDiacritics: false,
     indexedFileTypes: [] as string[],
     displayTitle: '',
     PDFIndexing: false,
diff --git a/src/settings/settings-danger.ts b/src/settings/settings-danger.ts
index 712aeae..2ef11e4 100644
--- a/src/settings/settings-danger.ts
+++ b/src/settings/settings-danger.ts
@@ -15,33 +15,6 @@ export function injectSettingsDanger(
 
   new Setting(containerEl).setName('Danger Zone').setHeading()
 
-  // Ignore diacritics
-  new Setting(containerEl)
-    .setName('Ignore diacritics')
-    .setDesc(
-      htmlDescription(`Normalize diacritics in search terms. Words like "brûlée" or "žluťoučký" will be indexed as "brulee" and "zlutoucky".<br/>
-      ⚠️ <span style="color: var(--text-accent)">You probably should <strong>NOT</strong> disable this.</span><br>
-      ⚠️ <span style="color: var(--text-accent)">Changing this setting will clear the cache.</span><br>
-      ${needsARestart}`)
-    )
-    .addToggle(toggle =>
-      toggle.setValue(settings.ignoreDiacritics).onChange(async v => {
-        await database.clearCache()
-        settings.ignoreDiacritics = v
-        await saveSettings(plugin)
-      })
-    )
-
-  new Setting(containerEl)
-    .setName('Ignore Arabic diacritics (beta)')
-    .addToggle(toggle =>
-      toggle.setValue(settings.ignoreArabicDiacritics).onChange(async v => {
-        await database.clearCache()
-        settings.ignoreArabicDiacritics = v
-        await saveSettings(plugin)
-      })
-    )
-
   // Disable Locator
   const disableDesc = new DocumentFragment()
   disableDesc.createSpan({}, span => {
diff --git a/src/settings/utils.ts b/src/settings/utils.ts
index 0188e5f..4b5cf9a 100644
--- a/src/settings/utils.ts
+++ b/src/settings/utils.ts
@@ -41,9 +41,6 @@ export interface LocatorSettings extends WeightingSettings {
   recencyBoost: RecencyCutoff
   /** downrank files in the given folders */
   downrankedFoldersFilters: string[]
-  /** Ignore diacritics when indexing files */
-  ignoreDiacritics: boolean
-  ignoreArabicDiacritics: boolean
 
   /** Extensions of plain text files to index, in addition to .md */
   indexedFileTypes: string[]
diff --git a/src/tools/api.ts b/src/tools/api.ts
index 6eb3559..58ebdc5 100644
--- a/src/tools/api.ts
+++ b/src/tools/api.ts
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ export function getApi(plugin: LocatorPlugin) {
   return {
     async search(q: string): Promise<ResultNoteApi[]> {
       const query = new Query(q, {
-        ignoreDiacritics: plugin.settings.ignoreDiacritics,
-        ignoreArabicDiacritics: plugin.settings.ignoreArabicDiacritics,
+        ignoreDiacritics: true,
+        ignoreArabicDiacritics: true,
       })
       const raw = await plugin.searchEngine.getSuggestions(query)
       return mapResults(plugin, raw)
diff --git a/src/tools/text-processing.ts b/src/tools/text-processing.ts
index 35ee12e..9b2e4bd 100644
--- a/src/tools/text-processing.ts
+++ b/src/tools/text-processing.ts
@@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ export class TextProcessor {
     const reg = this.stringsToRegex(words)
     const originalText = text
     // text = text.toLowerCase().replace(new RegExp(SEPARATORS, 'gu'), ' ')
-    if (this.plugin.settings.ignoreDiacritics) {
-      text = removeDiacritics(text, this.plugin.settings.ignoreArabicDiacritics)
-    }
+    text = removeDiacritics(text)
     const startTime = new Date().getTime()
     let match: RegExpExecArray | null = null
     let matches: SearchMatch[] = []
diff --git a/src/tools/utils.ts b/src/tools/utils.ts
index 185825f..218c156 100644
--- a/src/tools/utils.ts
+++ b/src/tools/utils.ts
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ const diacriticsRegex = new RegExp(`(?!${regexpExclude})\\p{Diacritic}`, 'gu')
 /**
  * https://stackoverflow.com/a/37511463
  */
-export function removeDiacritics(str: string, arabic = false): string {
+export function removeDiacritics(str: string, arabic = true): string {
   if (str === null || str === undefined) {
     return ''
   }