diacritics Questions

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I've read about how Zalgo text works, and I'm looking to learn how a chat or forum software could prevent that kind of annoyance. More precisely, what is the complete set of Unicode combining chara...
Saintly asked 9/3, 2014 at 0:47

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Is there any way to do an accent-insensitive LIKE query in SQLite? For example, this query: SELECT * FROM users WHERE name LIKE "Andre%" would return: André the Giant Andre Agassi etc. I'm u...
Terbecki asked 23/12, 2012 at 6:59

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It seems that if you call ToAscii() or ToUnicode() while in a global WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook, and a dead-key is pressed, it will be 'destroyed'. For example, say you've configured your input language ...
Lichter asked 26/12, 2009 at 23:24

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I have one string and want remove any character not in any case below: not in this list : ÀÁÂÃÈÉÊÌÍÒÓÔÕÙÚĂĐĨŨƠàáâãèéêìíòóôõùúăđĩũơƯĂẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶẸẺẼỀỀỂ ưăạảấầẩẫậắằẳẵặẹẻẽềềểỄỆỈỊỌỎỐỒỔỖỘỚỜỞỠỢỤỦỨỪễệỉị...
Leoine asked 29/9, 2010 at 8:9

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I've just compiled a database of 1 million place names. I'm going to use it in an auto-complete widget to look up cities. A lot of these places have accents... I want to be able to find records whe...
Temekatemerity asked 27/1, 2011 at 7:4

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I have a database that is uft8_general_ci, only problem is up until this point an application coded by a previous developer seems to have been working with the database in latin-1. I have since ch...
Logographic asked 16/1, 2012 at 11:47

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I have to convert french characters into english on my php. I've used the following code: iconv("utf-8", "ascii//TRANSLIT", $string); But the result for ËËË was "E"E"E. I don't need that double...
Barracks asked 7/4, 2012 at 13:17

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I have a Unicode string in Python, and I would like to remove all the accents (diacritics). I found on the web an elegant way to do this (in Java): convert the Unicode string to its long normalize...
Aspire asked 5/2, 2009 at 21:10

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What I want to do is to remove all accents and umlauts from a string, turning "lärm" into "larm" or "andré" into "andre". What I tried to do was to utf8_decode the string and then use strtr on it, ...
Teamster asked 1/10, 2008 at 15:32

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How do I remove accentuated characters from a string? Especially in IE6, I had something like this: accentsTidy = function(s){ var r=s.toLowerCase(); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/\s/g),""); r = r...
Epinephrine asked 13/6, 2009 at 15:49

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How do I change the special characters to the usual alphabet letters? This is my dataframe: In [56]: cities Out[56]: Table Code Country Year City Value 240 Åland Islands 2014.0 MARIEHAMN 11437.0 ...
Azotic asked 20/6, 2016 at 15:25

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Is it possible? This is my input string: ľ š č ť ž ý á í é Č Á Ž Ý This is the output I want: l s c t z y a i e C A Z Y
Bendwise asked 3/9, 2010 at 12:5

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how to remove dynamically Arabic diacritic I'm designing an ebook "chm" and have multi html pages contain Arabic text but some time the search engine want highlight some of Arabic words because ...
Pleuropneumonia asked 7/3, 2011 at 19:30

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I got a data.table base. I got a term column in this data.table class(base$term) [1] character length(base$term) [1] 27486 I'm able to remove accents from a string. I'm able to remove accents fr...
Horsepowerhour asked 25/8, 2016 at 15:5

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I just stumbled over this question about coloring diacritics. The task was to color diacritics in another color than the base text, like in á presenting a in blue and ´ in red. I thought I could gi...
Valona asked 23/12, 2017 at 22:58

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Background Various languages have what's called "Diacritics" . Special signs that come with "normal" letters, one way or another. They might change how the letters sound, or jus...
Glochidiate asked 16/2, 2023 at 18:27

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Does anyone have a multibyte variant of the strtr() function? Example of desired usage: Example: $from = 'ľľščťžýáíŕďňäô'; // these chars are in UTF-8 $to = 'llsctzyairdnao'; // input - in UTF-8 ...
Rabe asked 3/5, 2010 at 14:30

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I have trouble making a diacritic insensitive search with arabic text. I have tested multiple setups for the table in question: encodings in utf8 and utf16 as well as collations in utf8_general_ci...
Kennard asked 4/3, 2015 at 19:41

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I am looking for a Javascript regex to make sure the string contains only spaces, letters, and ñ — case insensitively. I already tried: /^[A-Za-z _]*[A-Za-z][A-Za-z _]*$/ but it fails to accept ñ....
Rademacher asked 10/9, 2011 at 16:56

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Never played before with umlauts or specialchars in javascript strings. My problem is how to remove them? For example I have this in javascript: var oldstr = "Bayern München"; var str = oldstr.sp...
Butters asked 26/1, 2011 at 13:6

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Trying to include a source-file into my latex document using the listings package, i got problems with german umlauts inside of the comments in the code. Using \lstset{ extendedchars=\true, inpute...
Passacaglia asked 12/7, 2009 at 15:41

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I need to match a word like 'César' for a regex like this /^cesar/i. Is there an option like /i to configure the regex so it ignores the acute accents?. Or the only solution is to use a regex like...

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How can I replace diacritics (ă,ş,ţ etc) with their "normal" form (a,s,t) in javascript?
Polash asked 14/5, 2009 at 14:53

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I'm trying to convert some strings that are in Czech, Spanish, French etc. I'd like to take out the accent marks in the letters while keeping the letter. (E.g. convert é to e, č to c, Ž to Z, ñ to ...
Falcate asked 15/6, 2015 at 11:44

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I'm trying to save French accents in my database, but they aren't saved like they should in the DB.For example, a "é" is saved as "é".I've tried to set my files to "Unicode (utf-8)", the fields i...
Carbonation asked 31/1, 2011 at 18:13

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