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From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strip accents and sorting [was: BibTeX issues]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:29:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201.44841.652990.23913@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lfvcbg5u.fsf@gnu.org>

On Thu Aug 29 2019 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
> > Now, one solution would be to simply strip off the combining
> > characters by decomposing the characters.  Or is there a possibility
> > to teach a sorting algorithm that the first letter of ä-combine is
> > "the same" as the first letter of ä-umlaut and all this should
> > appear near a-plain instead of past o-plain?
> 
> Both should be possible.  To entirely strip the combining accents, you
> can use ucs-normalize, and then filter out all characters whose
> canonical combining class is non-zero.

Thanks, I need to look at this more carefully.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-30 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27  8:40 BibTeX issues Joost Kremers
2019-08-28 17:45 ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-28 18:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29  3:26     ` strip accents and sorting [was: BibTeX issues] Roland Winkler
2019-08-29  6:15       ` martin rudalics
2019-08-30 16:27         ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-30 17:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 18:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 19:09               ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-30 19:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 19:49                   ` Roland Winkler
2019-08-31  6:45                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29  7:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 16:29         ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2019-08-29  7:49   ` BibTeX issues Joost Kremers
2019-08-30 19:18     ` Roland Winkler

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