Best approach to handle accented letters
Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 28 06:17:20 PDT 2016
On Friday, 28 October 2016 at 12:52:04 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Friday, 28 October 2016 at 11:24:28 UTC, Alfred Newman wrote:
>> [...]
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.algorithm;
> import std.uni;
> import std.conv;
>
> void main()
> {
> auto str = "très élégant";
> immutable accents = unicode.Diacritic;
> auto removed = str
> .normalize!NFD
> .filter!(c => !accents[c])
> .to!string;
> writeln(removed); // prints "tres elegant"
> }
>
> This first decomposes all characters into base and diacritic,
> and then removes the latter.
Cool. That looks pretty neat and it should cover all cases.
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