Google Announces Unicode Progress

Google’s made an announcement regarding Unicode, and believe it or not, there’s something for everyone here.  Programmers should be interested to know that Unicode is becoming more popular at a rapid pace.  Normal Google users, meanwhile, will be happy to learn that searches should now turn up additional useful results.

Let’s start with the stuff that’s easier to understand.  On the Official Google Blog, Mark Davis explained today, “[T]he characters ‘fi’ can either be represented as two characters (‘f’ and ‘i’), or a special display form ‘fi’.  A Google search for [financials] or [office] used to not see these as equivalent – to the software they would just look like *nancials and of*ce.”

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