> 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
>>
>