Ask HN: Why Chrome browser has no case sensitive search?

Isn't this function pretty useful and easy to implement?

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It’s worse that it strips what it thinks are accents. Once I needed to search for ñ and it highlighted every n in the page (ñ and n are completely different letters).

jakosimov 5y ago ↗

This seems to be a problem with Search and Replace in Google Docs as well. It can't distinguish ä and å from a, or ö from o.

tacostakohashi 5y ago ↗

If the CSS text-transform: property is in use, should the case-sensitive search match the text before or after the transformation? Either implementation could be infuriating, so just doing case-insensitive seems like an easy way around the problem.

andrewon 5y ago ↗

I would vote for post-transform. User search for what can be seen seems a fair game.