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Replacing local characters?

Is there any way to replace any foreign characters for example: ã, ä to a, Ĉ, ć to c etc. I mean to leave simple letters like a-Z, without any additional things.

Solution

  • You can do this regular expression, if regexps are available to you:

    str = str.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z]", ""); //Assuming it to be a Java String

    If you wish to normalize your text, however, you should do as the accepted answer for this question suggests: Remove diacritical marks (ń ǹ ň ñ ṅ ņ ṇ ṋ ṉ ̈ ɲ ƞ ᶇ ɳ ȵ) from Unicode chars

    If you need to achieve the same thing in PHP you can write:

    echo iconv('UTF-8', 'US-ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'asdaśćż,ąółwe,ÄĄ;ú');