Top "Diacritics" questions

A Diacritic is "a mark near or through an orthographic or phonetic character or combination of characters indicating a phonetic value different from that given the unmarked or otherwise marked element" -- Merriam-Webster

Convert accented characters to their plain ascii equivalents

I have to convert french characters into english on my php. I've used the following code: iconv("utf-8", "ascii//TRANSLIT", $…

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How to remove accents in MySQL?

I've just compiled a database of 1 million place names. I'm going to use it in an auto-complete widget to look …

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Should I use accented characters in URLs?

When one creates web content in languages different than English the problem of search engine optimized and user friendly URLs …

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python : working with german umlaut

months = ["Januar", "Februar", "März", "April", "Mai", "Juni", "Juli", "August", "September", "Oktober", "November", "Dezember"] print months[2].decode("utf-8") Printing month[2] …

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Save Accents in MySQL Database

I'm trying to save French accents in my database, but they aren't saved like they should in the DB.For …

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Remove accents from String

Is there any way in Android that (to my knowledge) doesn't have java.text.Normalizer, to remove any accent from …

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filemtime() [function.filemtime]: stat failed for filenames with umlauts

I use the PHP function filemtime to get the last modification time with PHP 5.3. This functions works very well but …

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How to replace unicode characters by ascii characters in Python (perl script given)?

I am trying to learn python and couldn't figure out how to translate the following perl script to python: #!/usr/…

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The encoding that Notepad++ just calls "ANSI", does anyone know what to call it for Ruby?

I have a bunch of .txt's that Notepad++ says (in its drop-down "Encoding" menu) are "ANSI". They have German characters …

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Remove diacritics from a string

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 …

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