I am programmatically exporting data (using PHP 5.2) into a .csv test file. Example data: Numéro 1 (note the accented e). The data is utf-8 (no prepended BOM). When I open this file in MS Excel is displays as Numéro 1. I am able to open this in a text editor (UltraEdit) which displays it … Read more
Is there a better way for getting rid of accents and making those letters regular apart from using String.replaceAll() method and replacing letters one by one? Example: Input: orčpžsíáýd Output: orcpzsiayd It doesn’t need to include all letters with accents like the Russian alphabet or the Chinese one. 14 Answers 14
I’m trying to convert some strings that are in French Canadian and basically, I’d like to be able to take out the French accent marks in the letters while keeping the letter. (E.g. convert é to e, so crème brûlée would become creme brulee) What is the best method for achieving this? 20 s 20 … Read more
I have a Unicode string in Python, and I would like to remove all the accents (diacritics). I found on the web an elegant way to do this (in Java): convert the Unicode string to its long normalized form (with a separate character for letters and diacritics) remove all the characters whose Unicode type is … Read more
How do I remove accentuated characters from a string? Especially in IE6, I had something like this: accentsTidy = function(s){ var r=s.toLowerCase(); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/\s/g),””); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[àáâãäå]/g),”a”); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/æ/g),”ae”); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/ç/g),”c”); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[èéêë]/g),”e”); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[ìíîï]/g),”i”); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/ñ/g),”n”); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[òóôõö]/g),”o”); r … Read more
