Setek - 5:09 am on Feb 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

So, in typography we get taught to use certain ligatures and accents, such as:

Ligatures:
ffl - shuffle
æ - encyclopædia

Accents:
é - resumé

What I was wondering is, does anybody know if using proper typography techniques hinder aural narrators (can it pronounce them?) and other things?

What about search engines? I.. know this part should probably go in the SEO board but I didn't want to split it :)

If a user searches for resume, will it find pages that have resumé on them?

For that matter, what about the use of en dash (–, –) or em dash (—, —) - I know Google finds a hyphen and considers it two words, but what about the legitimate uses for en and em dashes? Does google treat it as one long word and compromises keywords?

[edited by: Setek at 5:18 am (utc) on Feb. 14, 2007]