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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Keith Jenkins wrote: > Hi, Tim. > > Are you are referring to a "find in page", where a user presses CTRL-F > in the browser? > > 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. Works in Safari 4.0.3, fails in Firefox 3.5.2 Here's a page to test with, using the correct (non-americanized) spelling of my name: http://www.frbr.org/2009/01/15/hourcle-frbr-applied-to-scientific-data As for tricks to get it to work -- T\the closest HTML tag that I can think of is 'ABBR' which isn't quite right: <ABBR lang='fr' title='Hourcle'>Hourclé</ABBR> ... and a quick test in Firefox 3.5 shows it doesn't help. -Joe (and no, it's not French, but it's a French spelling, so it'd clue the pronunciation for screen readers correctly