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by woodrowbarlow 2779 days ago
google is using unicode equivalence[1] to remap back to "standard" latin characters. this is important because, e.g., professional type-setting software may replace two adjacent "f" characters with a double-F ligature "ff" depending on kerning. without unicode equivalence, google would fail on a lot of copy-paste queries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence