diacritics

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 from a vector of string. iconv("Millésime",to="ASCII//TRANSLIT") [1] "Millesime" iconv(c("Millésime","boulangère"),to="ASCII//TRANSLIT") [1] "Millesime" "boulangere" But for some reason, it does not work when I apply the very same function on my term column base$terme[2] [1] "Millésime" iconv(base$terme[2],to="ASCII//TRANSLIT") [1] "MillACsime" Does anybody know what is going on here? Ok the way to solve

What is the best way to convert a Delphi XE AnsiString containing escaped combining diacritical marks like "Fu\u0308rst" into a frienly WideString "Fürst"? I am aware of the fact that this is not always possible for all combinations, but the common Latin blocks should be supported without building silly conversion tables on my own. I guess the solution can be found somewhere in the new Characters unit, but I don't get it. I think you need to perform Unicode Normalization. on your string. I don't know if there's a specific call in Delphi XE RTL to do this, but the WinAPI call NormalizeString

Tried select to_ascii('capo','LATIN1'), to_ascii('çapo','LATIN1') and the results are different.... Milen A. Radev Look here . CREATE FUNCTION to_ascii(bytea, name) RETURNS text STRICT AS 'to_ascii_encname' LANGUAGE internal; and then just use it like this: SELECT to_ascii(convert_to('Übermeier', 'latin1'), 'latin1'); 来源： https://stackoverflow.com/questions/659076/how-can-i-do-a-accent-insensitive-search-in-postgres-8-3-x-with-a-db-in-utf-8

i'm trying to modify a pdf using this method (first code block - using PDFStreamParser and iterating through PDFOperator, then updating COSString when needed): http://www.coderanch.com/t/556009/open-source/PdfBox-Replace-String-double-pdf I'm having an issue with some UTF-8 characters (diacritics): when I print the text that i want to update it show like "Societ? ?ii Na?ionale" (where '?' is a code like 0002 or 0004). The funny things are: when I write the updated pdf file, the characters are show correctly (even though i could't detected and replace them) if i try to strip the text using

I'm using the jquery.highlight plugin: http://code.google.com/p/gce-empire/source/browse/trunk/jquery.highlight.js?r=2 I'm using it to highlight search results. The problem is that if I search something like "café" it won't highlight any words. And if I search "cafe" , even though my results contains both "cafe" & "café" , it will only highlight "cafe" . So, I would need to highlight all "versions" of the words, with or without diacritics. Is that possible? http://jsfiddle.net/nHGU6/ Test HTML: <div id="wrapper-accent-sensitive"> <p>cafe</p> <p>asdf</p> <p>café</p> </div> <hr /> <div id=

This question already has answers here : Closed 6 years ago . PHP: Replace umlauts with closest 7-bit ASCII equivalent in an UTF-8 string (7 answers) i am looking for a method or maybe a conversion table that knows how to convert Umlauts and special characters to their most likely representation in ascii. Example: Ärger = aerger Bôhme = bohme Søren = soeren pjérà = pjera Anyone any idea? Update : Apart from the good accepted Answer, i also found PECLs Normalizer to be quite interesting, though i can not use it due to the server not having it and not being changed for me. Also do check out this