From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Unidecode" functionality in Emacs
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:59:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmfjgx55.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOj2CQRMiVSpnT1wEysenfgFDEb80JZqdPbUn53UmoLOj36zZQ@mail.gmail.com> (John Mastro's message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:04:29 -0700")
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John Mastro [2018-03-19 15:04:29-07] wrote:
> There are "Unidecode" packages for Perl[1], Python[2], and Emacs[3]
> (derived from one another in that order). They each transliterate
> Unicode text to ASCII, e.g.:
>
> (unidecode "Déjà vu")
> ;=> "Deja vu"
> (unidecode "北亰")
> ;=> "Bei Jing "
>
> Does Emacs have equivalent functionality built-in?
I don't know of any built-in functions but external "iconv" tool can do
similar thing for Latin scripts. Here's an example Emacs Lisp function
wrapper for "iconv":
(defun tl-ascii-translit (string)
(with-temp-buffer
(insert string)
(call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
"iconv" t t nil "-t" "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
(buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max))))
Works for Latin scripts:
(tl-ascii-translit "Déjà vu") ;=> "Deja vu"
(tl-ascii-translit "北亰") ;=> "??"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-20 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-19 22:04 "Unidecode" functionality in Emacs John Mastro
2018-03-20 4:59 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2018-03-20 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-20 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-20 17:23 ` John Mastro
2018-03-20 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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