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

If you want to achieve sorting where "ä" comes after "a" and is not treated as the same, then you can use a function like mine.

You can always change the alphabet to get different or even weird sortings. However, if you want some letters to be equivalent, then you have to manipulate the strings like a = a.replace(/ä/, 'a') or similar, as many have already replied above. I've included the uppercase letters if someone wants to have all uppercase words before all lowercase words (then you have to ommit .toLowerCase()).

function sortbyalphabet(a,b) {
        alphabet = "0123456789AaÀàÁáÂâÃãÄäBbCcÇçDdÈèÉéÊêËëFfGgHhÌìÍíÎîÏïJjKkLlMmNnÑñOoÒòÓóÔôÕõÖöPpQqRrSsTtÙùÚúÛûÜüVvWwXxÝýŸÿZz";
        a = a.toLowerCase();
        b = b.toLowerCase();
        shorterone = (a.length > b.length ? a : b);
        for (i=0; i