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Subject: Re: Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if a string contains a diacritic?
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:52:10 -0800
Re:  Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if
Can't you just use the translate(0 function (when all characters with
diacritics are known)?

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Mark Wilson <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to render Czech language strings containing diacritics into strings
> with the diacritics removed. The Czech alphabet has 16 lower case
diacritics
> and a somewhat smaller set of upper case diacritics. The strings are
> expressed in B UTF-8. I do not need to retain case, but I must locate and
> replace all diacritics.
>
> My only plan so far is construct a gigantic <xsl:choose> to find strings
> containing at least one diacritic. Then I would need a gigantic <xsl:if> to
> change each diacritic into its unaccented counterpart.
>
> I wonder if there is a simpler method for turning, for example, a word like
> "SafarC-k" [S, r, C-] into Safarik? Any ideas or suggestions,
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>



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