Re: Stripping out Unicode combining characters (diacritics)

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Doran, Michael D <[email protected]> wrote:
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>  I'm pulling my hair out on this... so any help would be appreciated.  If there's any other info I can provide, let me know.
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You'll want to transform the text to NFD format (nominally, base
characters plus combining marks) instead of NFC (precombined
characters) using Unicode::Normalize:

 use Unicode::Normalize;

 my $text = NFD($original);
 $text =~ s/\pM+//go;

Hope that helps.

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