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> For example, searching "ā" on chrome or firefox finds all "a"s, which is extremely annoying if there's one "ā" on a page you want to find, and thousands of "a
by bradrn 3y ago
> For example, searching "ā" on chrome or firefox finds all "a"s, which is extremely annoying if there's one "ā" on a page you want to find, and thousands of "a"s everywhere.
For reference, the ‘match diacritics’ option on Firefox toggles this behaviour.
(It’s slightly misnamed, actually, since it’s more expansive than just diacritics: it also matches things like Unicode dashes for ASCII dashes, and so on.)
- dzaima 3y agoAh right, Firefox does have a nice option for this. I happened to check Chromium on desktop, but Firefox on Android (which were the browsers I had open already), which doesn't have this option.