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   Unicode Character Equivalence Support in Web Browsers
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     ...
    </code> in the find box <kbd> Ctrl </kbd> + <kbd> f </kbd> , it'll find the Unicode character ellipsis <code>
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    </code> . Here's some other equivalences:<ul><li>e ↔ é<li>a ↔ à<li>i ↔ î<li>n ↔ ñ<li>u ↔ ü<li>others accented letters, for example: ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆ Ç ÈÉÊË ÌÍÎÏ ÐÑ ÒÓÔÕÖ ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß àáâãäåæç èéêë ìíîï ðñòóôõö øùúûüýþÿ<li>"straight double quote" ↔ “curly double quote”<li>1 ↔ ①<li>2 ↔ ②<li>3 ↔ ③<li>... ↔ …<li>any char is equivalent to its fullwidth version. For example, () [] {} vs （） ［］ ｛｝, and fullwidth forms of punctuations “, . ; ? !” etc. [see <a href=unicode_full-width_chars.html> Unicode Full-Width Characters </a> ]</ul><p>Note: Firefox, Opera, does not support this. It's funny that IE8 support some of them. If you type “1”, it'll find “①”, but if you type “e”, it won't find “é”. (all browsers tested are latest public versions as of <time> 2011-03-09 </time> .) You can test by <kbd> Ctrl </kbd> + <kbd> f </kbd> right on this page.<p>as of 2018-04-14, Google Chrome, Safari, still support this, but not Firefox. 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