Efficiently replace all accented characters in a string?

Question

For a poor man\'s implementation of near-collation-correct sorting on the client side I need a JavaScript function that does efficient single character rep

Answer 1

Not a single answer mentions String.localeCompare, which happens to do exactly what you originally wanted, but not what you're asking for.

var list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'o', 'u', 'z', 'ä', 'ö', 'ü'];

list.sort((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b));

console.log(list);

//Outputs ['a', 'ä', 'b', 'c', 'o', 'ö', 'u', 'ü', 'z']

The second and third parameter are not supported by older browsers though. It's an option worth considering nonetheless.