From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 19:00:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83fu2d84x8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527436915 22786 195.159.176.226 (27 May 2018 16:01:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 16:01:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 27 18:01:51 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 1fMy7D-0005oe-6M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 18:01:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMy9J-0003Kw-RR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 12:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMy5x-0001b2-3C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 12:00:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMy5u-0002A0-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 12:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMy5t-00029h-Ie for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 12:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2422 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fMy5s-00028a-Vn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 12:00:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Sun, 27 May 2018 08:22:20 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:116871 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 08:22:20 +0200 > > I want to convert e.g. "żółć" to "zolc", or "Poincaré" to "Poincare" > etc. IOW, I want to replace all these funny Unicode accented characters > with their ASCII equivalents. > > Is there anything for that in Emacs? Yes, use ucs-normalize.el functionality to decompose accented characters, and then remove all the characters that aren't ASCII.