How can my aiml interpreter in Android get to know the ' é ' character?

Question

I created a chatbot with aiml in pandorabots having French as a language. Then I bought an API so I can implement it in an android application. But it doesn't recognize some words having an "é" in the pattern. How can my aiml interpreter in Android get to know the ' é ' character ?

I tried to predict words with the same meaning and use the srai category but still not a solution

Answer 1

If you write your categories with e instead of é and add this to your normal.substitution file:

["é","e"],

It should work

<category>
    <pattern>Beyonce</pattern>
    <template>
         Beyonce is a great singer.
    </template>
</category>

It can now respond to something like Beyoncé, as well as Beyonce