diacriticals (was Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #284 - 12 msgs)

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto jeanne at runrev.com
Sun Mar 24 01:16:00 EST 2002


At 4:32 PM -0800 3/23/2002, Matt Denton wrote:
>I'm trying to decode text that has language diacritical marks included,
>to give the root-letter form: é to e; ç to c etc.
>
>I've hunted through the documentation (Text and Data Processing) looking
>for some in-built transcript term or way of handling and matching these
>characters, I vaguely recall somewhere this has been addressed.

I don't think there's an easy general way to do this. (You might be
remembering the macToISO and ISOToMac functions, which swap such characters
between different character sets but don't give you the "base" character.)

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