Re: Function for removing Accents?

"Thomas Weidenfeller" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chris Uppal wrote:
You could probably speed up this process considerably by using a
pre-existing
Unicode package such as ICU:

I am not sure :-) My understanding of ICU after checking the documentation
is that it doesn't do the destructive thing the OP might want to do. It
looks more as if the authors of ICU tried very hard to get every aspect of
Unicode right. Mapping an accented character to a single non-accented
"equivalent" is certainly not right in the scope of Unicode, and also not
in the scope of non-ascii languages.

I did say approximate representation.

The thing that annoys me the most is the song by Tool named ænima.

The effort to invest in a solution also depends on how good the solution
has to be. Since the original text is anyhow supposed to be butchered, I
don't see a reason for 100% accuracy.

To be honest the solution that I have now works just fine. I have hardcoded
ReplaceAlls for every character appearing in my file name scope.

Incidentally, why is ICU never mentioned around here ?

Probably because people don't know about it (I didn't). And probably
because it solves problems not many people have each day.

You are not the only one that had not heard about it.

Unicode is such a beautiful thing - I wonder why it takes so long to catch
on?

--
LTP

:)


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