We have a user-facing function that creates login names based on their real
names, using initial characters from their surname and last name to create a
MarkLogic user name. For the first time we recorded a server error when someone
registered with a name beginning with a non-ASCII character (Norwegian Ø),
because currently MarkLogic username cannot have non-ASCII characters.
So I thought the easy solution would be to use xdmp:diacritic-less(). But no,
that only changes characters like ñ and é that are accented variants of a single
letter. It does not touch combined charaters like Ø or Æ.
Of course I could use fn:translate to catch all of the likely cases, but is
there a more general-purpose standard or extension function to perform
normalization to ASCII for accented/combined Latin characters in a MarkLogic
environment?
David S.
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