From: PA <petite.abeille@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T04:26:17+09:00
Subject: Re: replacing diacritics by simple character


On Sep 25, 2007, at 18:55, F. Senault wrote:

>> do u know of a way to replace diacritics by simple character (ie. : é
>> -o-> e)
>>
>> the same with ligatures (ie. : Æ -o-> AE )
>>
>> using tables ?
>
> IConv can do that for you :

An alternative approach is something like Sean M. Burke's 
Text::Unidecode:

http://interglacial.com/~sburke/tpj/as_html/tpj22.html
http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Text-Unidecode-0.04/lib/Text/Unidecode.pm


Here is an example of an implementation of Unidecode in Lua [1]:

local Unidecode = require( 'Unidecode' )

print( Unidecode( 'Москва́' ) )
print( Unidecode( '北京' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'Ἀθηνᾶ' ) )
print( Unidecode( '서울' ) )
print( Unidecode( '東京' ) )
print( Unidecode( '京都市' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'नेपाल' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'تَلْ أَبِيبْ يَافَا' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'تهران' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'Géometrie Différentielle' ) )

 > Moskva
 > beijing
 > Athena
 > seoul
 > dongjing
 > jingdushi
 > nepaal
 > te'labiyb-yapvo
 > tal 'abiyb yaafaa
 > thran
 > Geometrie Differentielle

Cheers,

PA.

[1] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/Unidecode.lua