From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 07:55:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1rpi1w7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> 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?
Check out char-fold.el. I think its main purpose is to go the other way:
to take an ascii string and return a regexp matching all it's likely
unicode lookalikes, but you might be able to use `char-fold-table' to go
the other way.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-27 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-27 6:22 Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 7:36 ` tomas
2018-05-27 12:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 12:52 ` Teemu Likonen
2018-05-27 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 16:59 ` Teemu Likonen
2018-05-28 5:24 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-05-30 10:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-30 19:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 20:00 ` tomas
2018-05-28 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-29 6:37 ` tomas
2018-05-27 13:04 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 10:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 11:51 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 15:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 2:03 ` John Mastro
2018-06-02 18:07 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 18:48 ` tomas
2018-06-07 17:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 22:33 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-07 17:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 18:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 19:53 ` tomas
2018-05-28 8:15 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-05-28 10:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-28 10:39 ` tomas
2018-05-28 15:30 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-28 16:02 ` tomas
2018-05-30 10:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-31 15:08 ` S. Champailler
2018-05-31 22:52 ` Richard Wordingham
2018-05-31 15:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-31 16:20 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-31 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.871.1527781438.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-31 23:23 ` James K. Lowden
2018-06-01 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-01 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 14:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2018-05-27 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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