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HTML

<select>
    <option>acentuacao</option>
    <option>divagacão</option>
    <option>programaçao</option>
    <option>taxação</option>
</select>

JavaScript

// Chosen, a Select Box Enhancer for jQuery and Prototype
// by Patrick Filler for Harvest, http://getharvest.com
//
// Version 1.0.0
// Full source at https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen
// Copyright (c) 2011 Harvest http://getharvest.com

// MIT License, https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/blob/master/LICENSE.md
// This file is generated by `grunt build`, do not edit it by hand.
(function() {
  var $, AbstractChosen, Chosen, SelectParser, _ref,
    __hasProp = {}.hasOwnProperty,
    __extends = function(child, parent) { for (var key in parent) { if (__hasProp.call(parent, key)) child[key] = parent[key]; } function ctor() { this.constructor = child; } ctor.prototype = parent.prototype; child.prototype = new ctor(); child.__super__ = parent.prototype; return child; };

  SelectParser = (function() {
    function SelectParser() {
      this.options_index = 0;
      this.parsed = [];
    }

    SelectParser.prototype.add_node = function(child) {
      if (child.nodeName.toUpperCase() === "OPTGROUP") {
        return this.add_group(child);
      } else {
        return this.add_option(child);
      }
    };

    SelectParser.prototype.add_group = function(group) {
      var group_position, option, _i, _len, _ref, _results;

      group_position = this.parsed.length;
      this.parsed.push({
        array_index: group_position,
        group: true,
        label: this.escapeExpression(group.label),
        children: 0,
        disabled: group.disabled
      });
      _ref = group.childNodes;
      _results = [];
      for (_i = 0, _len = _ref.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
        option = _ref[_i];
        _results.push(this.add_option(option, group_position, group.disabled));
      }
      return _results;
    };

    SelectParser.prototype.add_option = function(option, group_position, group_disabled) {
      if (option.nodeName.toUpperCase() === "OPTION") {
        if (option.text !== "") {
          if (group_position != null) {
           ...