diacritics

When one creates web content in languages different than English the problem of search engine optimized and user friendly URLs emerge. I'm wondering whether it is the best practice to use de-accented letters in URLs -- risking that some words have completely different meanings with and without certain accents -- or it is better to stick to the usage of non-english characters where appropriate sacrificing the readability of those URLs in less advanced environments (e.g. MSIE, view source). "Exotic" letters could appear anywhere: in titles of documents, in tags, in user names, etc, so they're

I am making a swedish website, and swedish letters are å, ä, and ö. I need to make a string entered by a user to become url-safe with PHP. Basically, need to convert all characters to underscore, all EXCEPT these: A-Z, a-z, 1-9 and all swedish should be converted like this: 'å' to 'a' and 'ä' to 'a' and 'ö' to 'o' (just remove the dots above). The rest should become underscores as I said. Im not good at regular expressions so I would appreciate the help guys! Thanks NOTE: NOT URLENCODE...I need to store it in a database... etc etc, urlencode wont work for me. Jeremy L // normalize data (remove

This question already has an answer here: How do I remove diacritics (accents) from a string in .NET? 19 answers I've found a answer how to remove diacritic characters on stackoverflow, but could you please tell me if it is possible to change diacritic characters to non-diacritic ones? Oh.. and I think about .NET (or other if not possible) CesarB Copying from my own answer to another question : Instead of creating your own table, you could instead convert the text to normalization form D, where the characters are represented as a base character plus the diacritics (for instance, "á" will be

I am trying to write a filter function for my application that will take an input string and filter out all objects that don't match the given input in some way. The easiest way to do this would be to use String's contains method, i.e. just check if the object (the String variable in the object) contains the string specified in the filter, but this won't account for accents. The objects in question are basically Persons, and the strings I am trying to match are names. So for example if someone searches for Joao I would expect Joáo to be included in the result set. I have already used the