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 "pla?a", 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
