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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Michal'" <rabbitko@tenbit.pl>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: national to ASCII character conversion
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:56:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5F2CF928625C48F5B7CCC48ADA8C08AD@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zlc6mwf4.fsf@tenbit.pl>

> I have a string which contains national characters and I would like to
> convert them to ASCII equivalents. for example: ó -> o ł -> l ż -> z
>
> one of ways is just using: (replace-regexp-in-string "ó" "o" my_string)
> for each national character, but I believe that there is much better way.

I'm sure there is is a good way, but I don't know it. (I don't use such chars
much anymore.)

If someone doesn't offer a good way (which I doubt), then you can at least do
what I used to do:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/unaccent.el.

If there is no good way currently (which I also doubt), then perhaps someone
will code something up.

When I used to do this a lot, I found it handy to have commands that do it for
one or more words (`unaccent-word') and for the region (`unaccent-region'). I
bind those to M-" and C-x ", respectively.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-17 20:34 national to ASCII character conversion Michal
2009-06-17 20:56 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-06-17 21:26 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-06-17 22:09   ` Teemu Likonen
2009-06-17 21:57 ` Xah Lee
     [not found] ` <mailman.819.1245272178.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-17 23:02   ` Michal
2009-06-17 23:42     ` Drew Adams

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