"Jalapeno" is not a word in any language that I know of. Maybe I'm stuck in another era or something. Our database has a non-word as the name for those plants, including peppers and lilies and iris and hibiscus, no two ways about that. It's certainly not the correct name of any cultivar. I understand if there are technical reasons for this, and that sounds to be the case, but the database is in error. I can live with that, of course, as I have with other names. It's not a big deal but it's not correct.
I don't know the ins and outs of searching but I would imagine if you strip the diacritical marks from input strings and target strings (convert all instances of ñ to n for searches, for example) you will get the most comprehensive results. The same would work in theory for accented vowels (a search for o would also return instances of ó).
