Generation ñ (enya)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/24/2008 12:53 AM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>It seems I didn't go far enough, although I still
>>think Google Groups doesn't distinguish with vs. without tilde.
>-
>
>[Sorry, my previous message was incomplete.]
>
>Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Using Alt-0241 to enter the "ñ"
>(n-tilde), I'll try ...
>
>berson
>
>~900,000 claimed hits

Makes googling someone definitely seem worth the
time, doesn''t it?  :-)  I'll have to try finding some long-lost relatives ...

I no longer have a record of whether I tried with
or without quotes, etc.  But I'm getting results
similar to yours now, both with Groups and
Web.  That is, the quotes seem to force a
distinction between the accented and unaccented forms.

Joel


>bersoñ
>
>~900,000 claimed hits
>
>"berson"
>
>~900,000 claimed hits
>
>"bersoñ"
>
>3 hits, all erroneous of course, but all superficially having the n-tilde.
>
>Putting quotes on something with "ñ" forces the "ñ" to be found ("n" not
>accepted); however I don't know whether approach will force "n" to be
>found to the exclusion of "ñ".
>
>Let's try ...
>
>mañana / manana / manaña / mañaña
>
>each about 95,000,000 claimed hits
>
>"mañana"
>
>~91,000,000 claimed hits
>
>"manana"
>
>~4,000,000 claimed hits
>
>"manaña"
>
>~100,000 claimed hits
>
>"mañaña"
>
>~24,000 claimed hits
>
>... hmmm, looks like it did distinguish ....
>
>-- Doug Wilson
>
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