From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:15:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87k1rav7pn.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> <871sdp2hah.fsf@mbork.pl> <68db4874-d7c2-4f4c-837e-1f0db59de7fc@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528392599 25616 195.159.176.226 (7 Jun 2018 17:29:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:29:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: John Mastro , Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 19:29:55 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyjS-0006YA-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:29:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQylZ-0000hw-4n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyWm-0001T2-K4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyWj-00014I-D6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:16:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:36707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyWj-00013x-4b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A655E68A2; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:16:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id omDmymbYpLpt; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:16:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 459EFE688F; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:16:40 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <68db4874-d7c2-4f4c-837e-1f0db59de7fc@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117022 Archived-At: On 2018-06-03, at 00:33, Drew Adams wrote: >> My use case is much, much simpler than much of the stuff mentioned in >> this thread. 99.5% (or more) of the cases are Polish names, where we >> have only 9 "offending" letters, all easily asciified. I thought there >> is a simple, general solution (and I learned there isn't and probably >> there can't be). > ... >> KISS > > If you want a really rudimentary, KISS solution along those > lines, just apply a set of mappings of the chars you're > interested in. > > I used that approach in the last millenium, in `unaccent.el' > (and I still use it occasionally). > > I was interested only in translating letters with trema/umlaut, > circumflex, grave & acute accents, cedilla, tilde, S-zed, > guillemets, ae ligature, slashed O, angstrom, and upside-down > question mark & exclamation point - so my translation alist > contained only those mappings. But you could using any > mapping, just by redefining variable `reverse-iso-chars-alist' > (not a good name, considering its generality, but that's what > I was using it for). > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/unaccent.el Thanks, that's a good idea, although I was too lazy to perform all these mappings myself and used the function mentioned earlier in the thread to shave off all the accents. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl