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> Are you are referring to a "find in page", where a user presses CTRL-F > in the browser? Yes, sorry to be unclear. > If so, it will depend on the browser. Google Chrome 2.0 will find > matches regardless of the diacritics (i.e. user can type "placa" and > it matches "plaça", and vice versa). This doesn't seem to work in > Firefox 3.0.13 or IE8. Exactly, and FF and IE are the most common browsers we're seeing. I was wondering if someone (I know this sounds crazy) has explored the idea of marking up the non-diacritic inline version of the word in a span styled in such a way as to make it findable but not intrusive. -t > Keith > > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tim Shearer<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Looking for help/perspectives. >> >> Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with >> diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user >> tries with or without diacritics. >> >> In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without, so >> the user gets what they want regardless of how they search. >> >> Thanks in advance for any ideas/enlightenment, >> Tim >> >