Switching to Java on aeouu

Question

Possible duplicates:
Remove diacritics (ń ǹ ň ṅ ņ ņ ṇ ṋ ṉ ̈ ɲ ƞ ᶇ ȵ) from Unicode characters
Is there a way to get rid of accents and convert a whole string to regular letters?

How can i do this? thanks for the help

Answer 1

I think your question is the same:

• Java - getting rid of accents and converting them to regular letters
• Convert Java string to ascii

and therefore the answer is also the same:

String convertedString = Normalizer .normalize(input, Normalizer.Form.NFD) .replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]", ""); 

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• JavaDoc: Normalizer.normalize (String, Normalizer.Form)
• JavaDoc: Normalizer.Form.NFD
• Sun Java Tutorial: Normalizer API)

Code example:

 final String input = "Tĥïŝ ĩš â fůňķŷ Šťŕĭńġ"; System.out.println( Normalizer .normalize(input, Normalizer.Form.NFD) .replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]", "") ); 

Output:

This is a funky line

Answer 2

You can use java.text.Normalizer to separate the base letters and diacritics, and then remove the latter with a regular expression:

 public static String stripDiacriticas(String s) { return Normalizer.normalize(s, Form.NFD) .replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", ""); } 

Answer 3

First off, you shouldn't. These symbols carry special phonetic properties that cannot be ignored.

The way to convert them is to create a Map containing each pair:

 Map<Character, Character> map = new HashMap<Character, Character>(); map.put('á', 'a'); map.put('é', 'e'); //etc.. 

and then loop the characters in the line by creating a new line by calling map.get(currentChar)