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Re: ascii char 26

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On 9/11/2011 6:18 PM, Bent C Dalager wrote:
> One would tend to think there ought to be a library function somewhere
> to convert a unicode string to ASCII-supported variants of its various
> characters where possible, that you should be using instead. I don't
> know if such a function is easily available.

This generally falls under the umbrella of Unicode normalization, which 
can resolve, e.g., Å the Angstrom symbol and Å the Swedish letter to the 
same representation (may require compatibility normalization). You can 
do this in Java using the java.text.Normalizer class.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-11 14:33 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-11 17:48 -0400
  Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 16:52 -0500
    Re: ascii char 26 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-11 18:28 -0400
    Re: ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-11 19:12 -0700
      Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 21:25 -0500
        Re: ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-12 01:30 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-11 15:25 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no> - 2011-09-11 23:18 +0000
    Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 18:37 -0500
    Re: ascii char 26 Retahiv Oopsiscame <roopsisc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 16:53 -0700
      Re: ascii char 26 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-14 11:55 -0700

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