Convert diacritics to low-ascii

[Geert Josten]

Thanx Andy!

Works just fine in XQuery too. But have to admit that it looks a bit funny to me. Replace something with nothing and still end up with all characters? Can anyone explain what this \p{M} is matching? Unicode spec isn't making it much clearer to me.. :-P

Kind regards,
Geert

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Van: Houghton,Andrew [mailto:http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk] 
Verzonden: dinsdag 21 juni 2011 14:18
Aan: Geert Josten
Onderwerp: Re:  Convert diacritics to low-ascii

If you are using XSLT 2.0 then convert the string to Unicode NFD or NFKD with normalize-unicode, then use regex replace with a unicode category to remove the diacritics. For example: 

<xsl:variable name="text" as="xsd:string" select="replace(normalize-unicode('abcdëf', 'NFD'), '[\p{M}]', '')" /> 

Hope that helps, Andy


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Hi,

Does anyone know a simple trick to convert characters like é and ä to their low-ascii counterparts?

Kind regards,
Geert

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