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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-05-30, at 19:05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 12:12:18 +0200
>> 
>> >     (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"...
>
> That's because ł doesn't have any decompositions.  So it stays
> unchanged and is removed because its codepoint is above 127.

I see.  This means that I'll have to take care of it on an earlier
stage.  Not very elegant - but what could I expect with Unicode? ;-)

Thanks,

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Marcin Borkowski
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