Re: Character folding in the pretest

[Óscar Fuentes]

Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02/04/2016 03:40 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> If a Spaniard inputs "sana" on a search box and "saña" is found, he
>> will regard the software as either buggy, dumb or completely
>> oblivious to Spanish culture.
>
> Is that true? Here are Google.es results for "sana"; Google seems to be happy 
> to return saña too: 
>
>> La Agencia Árabe Siria de Noticias
>> sana.sy/es/
>>
>> saña - Definición - WordReference.com
>> www.wordreference.com/definicion/saña
>> 
>> Saná - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
>> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saná
>
> I'm seeing this both from France and from the US, on Google.es; is it 
> different from Spain?

It is the same from Spain. Apparently Google is optimized for non-native
people who possible don't see a real difference among `n' and `ñ', or
have no method for typing an `ñ' (by law, all keyboards sold on Spain
must have a dedicated key for `ñ').

Google is being dumb here (from an Spanish-speaking POV, maybe not so
from other's POV).