Re: Letters for Indic transliteration

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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Antoine Leca wrote:

> For a lookalike, look after French œ, U+0153, in words like cœur, œil, or
> bœuf (heart, eye, beef; not precisely uncommon words) : not many people know
> this codepoint exist, so the majority of the material keyed in today still
> use the unligated form, oe, as in coeur, oeil, or boeuf (Google stats for
> "cœur": 8.67M including those using "coeur", versus "coeur": /only/ 8.66M;
> so use of "cœur" is about 1%...)

I wonder how you come to these numbers. I get

http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-15&q=c%BDur+-coeur
   ~ 3 000 000 hits

http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-15&q=-c%BDur+coeur
   ~ 5 900 000 hits

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