Diacretical incensitive search

From	Olive <diolu.remove_this_part@bigfoot.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Diacretical incensitive search
Date	2013-05-17 08:57 +0200
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<20130517085704.3f6609e8@pcolivier.chezmoi.net> (permalink)

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One feature that seems to be missing in the re module (or any tools that I know for searching text) is "diacretical incensitive search". I would like to have a match for something like this:

re.match("franc", "français")

in about the same whay we can have a case incensitive search:

re.match("(?i)fran", "Français").

Another related and more general problem (in the sense that it could easily be used to solve the first problem) would be to translate a string removing any diacritical mark:

nodiac("Français") -> "Francais"

The algorithm to write such a function is trivial but there are a lot of mark we can put on a letter. It would be necessary to have the list of "a"'s with something on it. i.e. "à,á,ã", etc. and this for every letter. Trying to make such a list by hand would inevitably lead to some symbols forgotten (and would be tedious). 

Olive

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Diacretical incensitive search Olive <diolu.remove_this_part@bigfoot.com> - 2013-05-17 08:57 +0200
  Re: Diacretical incensitive search Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 09:15 +0200
  Re: Diacretical incensitive search Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-05-17 10:30 +0200
    Re: Diacretical incensitive search Olive <diolu.remove_this_part@bigfoot.com> - 2013-05-17 17:37 +0200
      Re: Diacretical incensitive search jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 10:31 -0700
  Re: Diacretical incensitive search Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-05-20 09:10 +0000

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