Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to convert e.g. "żółć" to "zolc", or "Poincaré" to "Poincare"
> etc.  IOW, I want to replace all these funny Unicode accented characters
> with their ASCII equivalents.
>
> Is there anything for that in Emacs?

Check out char-fold.el. I think its main purpose is to go the other way:
to take an ascii string and return a regexp matching all it's likely
unicode lookalikes, but you might be able to use `char-fold-table' to go
the other way.

Eric