On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > There is an essential difference between using combining mark > and using a precomposed character: > ... > In searches, for example, they do not match.
At least in Google, they match: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:www.alanflavell.org.uk/unicode/unidata03.html+%C3%80 > In rendering, they would normally produce the same result, > but not necessary; transferred to another program, they might > produce different results, if the program cannot handle > combining marks or handles them too simply. Especially monospaced fonts such as Courier (New) are likely to fail. Test page for combining marks: http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/combining-marks.html

