| Matt Cutts' Answer about Special Characters: "I Don't Know"
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tedster
msg:4225125 | 9:44 pm on Nov 1, 2010 (gmt 0) |
How refreshing. Matt chose to handle a question "How does Google handle ligatures, soft-hyphens, interpuncts and hyphenation" on the video blog. And he answered with "I don't know". [youtube.com...]
He goes on to explain that if he doesn't know, that should be a warning that we'd better test whatever we do in the area of typographic correctness before going all the way with it.
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Robert Charlton
msg:4225160 | 10:31 pm on Nov 1, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Two references here, more to spur further inquiry than to suggest definitive answers....
In the June 18 WebProNews video interview with Bruce Clay about Caffeine... [videos.webpronews.com...] ...I remember that Bruce had made a point that Caffeine is UTF compatible. Quote from the background material on WPN about the video...
| Although Google has not officially announced it, users can now buy Unicode characters in urls and the search engine supports it. |
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And, from unicode.org FAQ...
Ligatures, Digraphs, Presentation Forms vs. Plain Text
http://unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html [unicode.org]
| The existing ligatures exist basically for compatibility and round-tripping with non-Unicode character sets. Their use is discouraged. No more will be encoded in any circumstances. |
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