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For example, searching for a word like "file" in an Unicode document may fail if the document uses the presentation form (compound character) 'fi' instead of th
by wruza 5y ago
For example, searching for a word like "file" in an Unicode document may fail if the document uses the presentation form (compound character) 'fi' instead of the two-character string "fi".
Not an issue in a collation-aware search. Test here by searching for "fi": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)
- satiric 5y agoJust tried this on Firefox on Linux. It finds "fi" instances in a word like "first", since that's rendered as separate characters on my system, but not when wikipedia specifically uses the fi ligature.