Unicode Character Equivalence Support in Web Browsers
It's very nice, in Google Chrome and Safari, that if you type 3 dots ... in the find box Ctrl+f, it'll find the Unicode character ellipsis ….
Here's some other equivalences:
- e ↔ é
- a ↔ à
- i ↔ î
- n ↔ ñ
- u ↔ ü
- others accented letters, for example: ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆ Ç ÈÉÊË ÌÍÎÏ ÐÑ ÒÓÔÕÖ ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß àáâãäåæç èéêë ìíîï ðñòóôõö øùúûüýþÿ
- "straight double quote" ↔ “curly double quote”
- 1 ↔ ①
- 2 ↔ ②
- 3 ↔ ③
- ... ↔ …
- any char is equivalent to its fullwidth version. For example, () [] {} vs （） ［］ ｛｝, and fullwidth forms of punctuations “, . ; ? !” etc. [see Unicode: Full-Width Characters]
Browser Support
As of 2011-03-09 Firefox, Opera, does not support this. It's funny that IE8 support some of them. If you type “1”, it'll find “①”, but if you type “e”, it won't find “é”. (all browsers tested are latest public versions as of .) You can test by Ctrl+f right on this page.
As of 2018-04-14, Google Chrome, Safari, still support this, but not Firefox. Edge browser supports some of it, for example, 1 ↔ ①, but not e for é.
As of 2023-06-15, Google Chrome, Firefox, all support this.