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AccentLess ( s )

Removes accents and ligatures

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Robert J Woodhead - Show more from this author AnimEigo http://www.animeigo.com/

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// converts accented characters and ligatures to unaccented form Substitute( s ; [ "À" ; "A" ] ; [ "Á" ; "A" ] ; [ "Â" ; "A" ] ; [ "Ã" ; "A" ] ; [ "Ä" ; "A" ] ; [ "Å" ; "A" ] ; [ "Ç" ; "C" ] ; [ "È" ; "E" ] ; [ "É" ; "E" ] ; [ "Ê" ; "E" ] ; [ "Ë" ; "E" ] ; [ "Ì" ; "I" ] ; [ "Í" ; "I" ] ; [ "Î" ; "I" ] ; [ "Ï" ; "I" ] ; [ "Ð" ; "TH" ] ; [ "Ñ" ; "N" ] ; [ "Ò" ; "O" ] ; [ "Ó" ; "O" ] ; [ "Ô" ; "O" ] ; [ "Õ" ; "O" ] ; [ "Ö" ; "O" ] ; [ "×" ; "x" ] ; [ "Ø" ; "O" ] ; [ "Ù" ; "U" ] ; [ "Ú" ; "U" ] ; [ "Û" ; "U" ] ; [ "Ü" ; "U" ] ; [ "Ý" ; "Y" ] ; [ "Þ" ; "TH" ] ; [ "ß" ; "ss" ] ; [ "à" ; "a" ] ; [ "á" ; "a" ] ; [ "â" ; "a" ] ; [ "ã" ; "a" ] ; [ "ä" ; "a" ] ; [ "å" ; "a" ] ; [ "æ" ; "ae" ] ; [ "ç" ; "c" ] ; [ "è" ; "e" ] ; [ "é" ; "e" ] ; [ "ê" ; "e" ] ; [ "ë" ; "e" ] ; [ "ì" ; "i" ] ; [ "í" ; "i" ] ; [ "î" ; "i" ] ; [ "ï" ; "i" ] ; [ "ð" ; "th" ] ; [ "ñ" ; "n" ] ; [ "ò" ; "o" ] ; [ "ó" ; "o" ] ; [ "ô" ; "o" ] ; [ "õ" ; "o" ] ; [ "ö" ; "o" ] ; [ "÷" ; "/" ] ; [ "ø" ; "o" ] ; [ "ù" ; "u" ] ; [ "ú" ; "u" ] ; [ "û" ; "u" ] ; [ "ü" ; "u" ] ; [ "ý" ; "u" ] ; [ "þ" ; "th" ] ; [ "ÿ" ; "y" ] ; [ "Æ" ; "AE" ] ; [ "æ" ; "ae" ] ; [ "IJ" ; "IJ" ] ; [ "ij" ; "ij" ] ; [ "Œ" ; "OE" ] ; [ "œ" ; "oe" ] ; [ "ff" ; "ff" ] ; [ "fi" ; "fi" ] ; [ "ffl" ; "ffl" ] ; [ "ffi" ; "ffi" ] ; [ "ſt" ; "sst" ] ; [ "st" ; "st" ] ) Click to copy

Replaces accented characters, ligatures, and a few special characters with their unaccented versions.

Useful when you need a straight ASCII version of a string, or when you are exporting to an app that does not properly handle character encoding (in my case, it was USPS Click-N-Ship for Business, which uses UTF8 everywhere except when printing out International Labels -- that form assumes Windows-1252, which means there is no way to print accented characters unmangled)

 

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