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

Regex to remove non-letter characters but keep accented letters

I have strings in Spanish and other languages that may contain generic special characters like (),*, etc. That I need to …

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MacOSX: how to disable accented characters input

I'm using Eclipse Juno on MacOSX Lion and have an issue with typing. I often print one quote/apostrophe and …

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Check If the string contains accented characters in SQL?

I want to perform a task if the input string contain any accented characters else do another task in SQL. …

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How to convert letters with accents, umlauts, etc to their ASCII counterparts in Perl?

I'm writing a program that works with documents in Perl and a lot of the documents have characters such as ä, ö, ü, é, …

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Mongodb match accented characters as underlying character

In MongoDB "db.foo.find()" syntax, how can I tell it to match all letters and their accented versions? For …

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ToAscii/ToUnicode in a keyboard hook destroys dead keys

It seems that if you call ToAscii() or ToUnicode() while in a global WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook, and a dead-key …

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Removing accents/diacritics from string while preserving other special chars (tried mb_chars.normalize and iconv)

There is a very similar question already. One of the solutions uses code like this one: string.mb_chars.normalize(:…

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How to set an umlaut ü in the mail subject

I need to generate German e-mails which contain umlaut characters. In the e-mail itself this works perfectly, but not in …

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GWT: Character encoding umlauts

I want to set a text in a label: labelDemnaechst.setText(" Demnächst fällig:"); On the output in the …

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Ignoring diacritic characters when comparing words with special characters (é, è, ...)

I have a list with some Belgian cities with diacritic characters: (Liège, Quiévrain, Franière, etc.) and I …

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