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Tuckbutt
The difference here is that this ö was created using two separate characters: regular [o] and the combining diaeresis character [ ̈]. See single character ö vs. ö (two characters combined). If you copy and paste the combining diaeresis character, it puts the accent over the character before it: äc̈ëg̈n̈… [https://symbl.cc/en/0308/]
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blindefmute
Yes, I am a Mac user. Interesting take liyang gave. And yet 3 years later, it's still the same.
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amgomezlopez
What happened?? Last.fm had figured it out that this was part of Bjork. What went wrong?
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liyang
OS X on the other hand takes the (arguably more logical) view that ‘ö’ is in fact just an ‘o’, followed by an umlaut combining-mark (0x0308). As the bytes differ, Last.fm thinks they're different artists. Both ways of storing ‘ö’ are valid. Hence ”the wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many choices…” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_normalization
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liyang
Am I correct in guessing that all of us are Mac users? (Or got your MP3s from a Mac?) If so, here's an explanation; get your geek hats out: OS X normalises (i.e. stores) Unicode characters differently from Windows and Linux. The latter would store the ö as a single character (0x00f6), to correspond with the Western European encoding used on many computers prior to the gradual adoption of Unicode
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