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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