[LINK] Diacritics and Search Engines

[Roger Clarke]

It's embarrassing to have to admit it (because I've done some work in 
this area), but I've just twigged to the obvious - diacritics such as 
umlauts, acutes and cedillas are not handled well by search-engines.

In the few languages that I'm familiar with, a letter with a 
diacritic is appropriately treated as a variant of the letter, e.g. 
u-umlaut is still a u (although in some languages the unadorned 
letter may not exist, or the two may be treated as different letters).

I tripped over the problem because people have reported that they're 
unable to find my paper from last September:

     What 'Überveillance' Is, and What To Do About It
     [Heaven knows what your email-client did with the u-umlaut ...]
     http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/RNSA07.html

If linkers can point to sources that explain this to dubbos like me, 
and what to do about it, I'd greatly appreciate the assistance.

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