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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-05-27, at 18:59, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii [2018-05-27 19:07:40+03] wrote:
>
>> Come on, crowd, you _must_ know that Emacs has all of the iconv's
>> functionality (and more) built-in, right? All that encode-coding stuff
>> etc.?
>
> Emacs has loads of stuff that I don't know or don't have time to study.
> :-) But thanks for your ucs-normalize hint. An ASCII normalization and
> filter could be something like this:
>
>
>     (defun my-ascii-normalize-filter (string)
>       (require 'cl-lib)
>       (cl-remove-if (lambda (char)
>                       (> char 127))
>                     (ucs-normalize-NFKD-string string)))
>
> Maybe one could want to filter out control chars too...

Thanks, that's a step in the right direction!

However, (my-ascii-normalize-filter "żółć") gived "zoc" and not
"zolc"...

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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