Using Unicode, there is more than one valid way to represent the same letter. The characters you’re using in your Tricky Name are a “latin small letter i with circumflex” and a “latin small letter a with ring above”. You say “Note the %CC versus %C3 character representations”, but looking closer what you see are … Read more
Unlike what some other people here have said, this has nothing to do with encodings. Rather, your two strings use different code points to render the same visual characters. To solve this correctly, you need to perform Unicode normalization on the two strings before comparing them. Unforunately, JavaScript doesn’t have this functionality built in. Here … Read more
Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Unicode Normalization Canonical Normalization Unicode includes multiple ways to encode some characters, most notably accented characters. Canonical normalization changes the code points into a canonical encoding form. The resulting code points should appear identical to the original ones barring any bugs in the fonts or rendering engine. When … Read more