I'm trying to convert all Latin unicode Character into their [a-z]
representations
ó --> o
í --> i
I can easily do one by one for example:
myString = myString.replaceAll("ó","o");
but since there are tons of variations, this approach is just impractical
Is there another way of doing it in Java? for example a regular Expression
, or a utility library
USE CASE:
1- city names from another languages into english e.g.
Espírito Santo --> Espirito Santo,
This answer requires Java 1.6 or above, which added java.text.Normalizer.
String normalized = Normalizer.normalize(input, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
String accentRemoved = normalized.replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");
Example:
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String input = "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép";
System.out.println("Input: " + input);
String normalized = Normalizer.normalize(input, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
System.out.println("Normalized: " + normalized);
String accentRemoved = normalized.replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");
System.out.println("Result: " + accentRemoved);
}
}
Result:
Input: Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép
Result: Arvizturo tukorfurogep