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As a counterexample, conflating two different glyphs as if they were the same can lead to the inability to search for a particular term. E.g. in Spanish these t
by david-gpu 3y ago
As a counterexample, conflating two different glyphs as if they were the same can lead to the inability to search for a particular term. E.g. in Spanish these two words (cono, coño) have very different meanings. If I'm searching for one I don't want to see results pertaining to the other one. It would be like searching for "sheet" and getting results for "shit".
- MrJohz 3y agoIt depends on how the search is implemented exactly and what the context is, but assuming I've searched for "cono", I would expect results that directly match "cono" to come first, then results that also match "coño". Similarly to how I'd expect to still get reasonable results if I type "beleive" instead of "believe". That said, this is obviously pretty context-dependent, in some settings it will make more sense to do an exact-match search, in which case you'd want to differentiate n and ñ (while still handling different possible unicode variants of ñ if those exist).