Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: > I need a function which converts Latin Unicode characters to the closest > equivalent ASCII characters, e.g. "�" -> "e". > > Before I reinvent the wheel, does any public domain or GPL code for this > already exist?
Please don't use character names for that conversion: instead use the NFKD decompositions from the UCD, then see if the first character is an ASCII character, and if so, remove diacritics in the 03xx block (that have a "Mn" general category and a non-zero combining class). If there remains non ASCII characters use a default replacement like '?'. But you need some other custom rules: (look at sharp-s compatibility decomposition: it's best to map it to "ss" rather than "?", whch can be done by looking at casefoldings of "Ll" lowercase letters) This will be less tricky, as there's no guarantee that names will be consistent __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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