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Are “Pokémon” and “Pokemon” different keywords to Google?

Does Google categorize Pokémon and Pokemon as different keywords? I would assume most people write "Pokemon" without the ´ simbol since it is easier, though the correct way to write it is "Pokémon". I tried searching both "Pokémon" and "Pokemon" in…
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Why use HTML entities instead of just putting Unicode characters in HTML?

Let's say I want to put a non-bland character in an HTML file; for instance, '→'. Is there any reason why I should enter it as '→' instead of just putting '→' in the HTML file? Assume my HTML file is encoded & transmitted in some Unicode…
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What is adding frog characters to my URLs?

While browsing the "Crawl Errors" section of Google Webmaster Tools, I discovered a set of very strange 500 errors in reference to my site: I was able to track down what these characters are, and apparently they are the first two characters in the…
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Display of special characters in the page title in SERPs

I have noticed a few oddities recently with the titles of web pages in search engine results pages (SERPs). I started using some special characters in my page titles in order to make them look slightly more appealing in SERPs and perhaps stand out a…
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Usable unicode for a "view" icon?

I've been looking to use unicode for more iconography, and I haven't been able to find any appropriate unicode for a "view" icon. None of the "eye"-related unicode that I've found works on the web. Does anyone know of any unicode icons that would…
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Meta tags decoding by Google

My site's CMS has some problems with reflecting correct cyrillic letters. So, in source code of the page my meta description looks like the next:
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Strange characters appearing on websites - ASCII? - UNICODE?

I have created many very simple pure HTML websites over the years. Most of them appear to work fine most of the time. But there is one recurring problem which I have never quite sorted out involving strange characters. The scenario goes like this: I…
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How to use unicodes effectively on cross-platform sites?

I was trying to use the 'ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB (U+1F4A1)' unicode on my site. Every platform shows the unicode different, even though I specify Symbola font on the font-family on the body tag (all characters use this font except for unicodes). Linux:…
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mathML/HTML symbol for mathematical vector

Is there a way to make something like the image below using text-based HTML/mathML. My concern is with the arrows over the letter v. This is for iOS (webKit); I'd rather not use mathJAX or the like if I can help it.
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Apache show file index as utf-8

I'm on a shared hosting which runs Apache on a Windows server. I am running Linux and I have uploaded some files that should be accessible directly via a public URL (that is known only by a few people). Now, some of these files contains accented…
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What's the unicode for the Share icon (or do I need to use SVG instead)?

A commonly recognised share icon looks like this: I'm guessing there must be (surely) a Unicode symbol out there for this, but so far - despite pretty thorough searching - I've come up empty-handed. I note that the approved list of new emojis for…
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Are there downsides to serving UTF-8 with a BOM?

Working with a client, I've just noticed that all of their files are being saved as Windows-1252, but they're serving them with charset=utf-8 on the Content-Type header (e.g., Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 and similar for their JS and…
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Which hosts support Unicode in International Domain Names?

I recently registered some Chinese character domain names at the .hk registrar. I was hoping to host them at 1and1 but am getting nowhere fast. Their system appears to struggle with the unicode characters and ignores punycode. I was wondering if…
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Google Adwords for Unicode Site

We are running an eLearning site. The site is on unicode font (Sinhala language). We are planning to put Google Adwords image/banner ad to promote our site. One of my friends said that we cannot put Google ad because our site is using unicode. He…
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Why does ᥐᥞᥨᥲ.com display as xn--rgf2a4a2b.com in FF/Chrome?

The example in the title is just one of the many examples of certain domains which should be allowable by IDNA2008 and https://www.verisign.com/assets/allowedcode/idn-allowed-code-points.html (look for "TAI LE LETTER KA" in that list) but…
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