[pgo]

I've come upon a situation I've never encountered before. I have a site built around a product. Said product's name has an "i acute" - í - in it. I've created all the pages with a regular "i" because:

1) It's easier than using the character map, manually typing the character entity, or copy/pasting every time.
2) I'm afraid Google might not give í and i the same weight/value.

Enlighten me.

[funkyprem]

where the main market for this product?

if it's somewhere in europe for example, they'd be able to type an í a lot easier than brits or yanks, and would therefore be more likely to search on this basis.

I may be wrong but don't SE's just index both versions of the word by default?

[pgo]

Primary market is US, but global, really.

I just tried googling with " í " and with " i ". Similar results, but not the same, so there's some effect, but it's minor.

[Transmogrify]

are any of the product names with an acute i linked from? you could probably use title in the link and use a non-acute i which might help. does the client want the acute i in the title or they not bothered?

[pgo]

Well, they just said "That's supposed to be an acute i. It needs to be consistent."

You know how marketers are!

[freelancr]

Hi PGO, I wondered this recently when I had to use a special character for the word "Crèche".... testing google when searching for creche and crèche I got the same results, and it highlighted the è (or e) regardless of which one was searched for!

Use the numbered HTML entities, much better for cross browser/platform compatibility and xhtml validation.

Btw, do NOT use special characters for URLs.

[pgo]

Originally Posted by freelancr

Btw, do NOT use special characters for URLs.

Of course!

[Shiro]

I read an interesting article in the newspaper a couple weeks ago about a new system they are testing to allow non-English URLs (i.e. Japanese characters etc). Sounds interesting!