Do special characters ñ ã ô ä ö ü í à affect search results?

[inlinear]

Dear Community,

the google AdWords Keyword Tool shows e.g.:

monthly global search for: "Satéré-Mawê Tribe" = 0
but for "Satere-Mawe Tribe" = 320 (at least)

But doing a search with or without using special characters,seems not to make a difference? as Google shows "the right" results even when people are making mistakes in spelling.

On an english website I wantto use in the Title "Hunting, fishing and living with the Satéré-Mawê Tribe" using the correct Portuguese spelling.

As Google Keyword tool tells me english speaking persons don't like using special characters... should I also leave them out in general or just don't mind?

Thanks for any response
Holger

[AlanMosley]

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sorry could not resist that. I would test it on other more well know examples, if you keep coming up with 0 and you still find pages with the special spelling in results then I would suggest Google copes with it,

having said that A B C will rank better than C B A for the team "A B C" , having exact may always have a slight advantage