Re: CANONICALIZE how to use?

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:59:30PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > * Jean Louis <[email protected]> [2017-04-13 17:31:32 +0300]:
> >
> > I was under impression that č could be replaced by c, and š by s and
> > so on.
> 
> That would be lovely, but I am not sure how to define such a function on
> UNICODE characters canonically.
> 
> Many UNICODE characters have no meaningful ASCII counterpart altogether
> (think oriental hieroglyphs), so they would have to be dropped or
> replaced with hex escapes or something...
> 
> (this is a relatively common question, and google offers "inconclusive"
> answers).

The practical world use is not that difficult.

I found a solution, to use iconv:

echo ßöäȧ čekaj malo | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
ssoaa cekaj malo

so I will just make simple function.

Thank you.

Jean

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