[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-285?page=comments#action_12442447 ] Gary Gregory commented on LANG-285: -----------------------------------
There is a more Unicode way to do this as is outlined in this discussion: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=728423&tstart=135 >From what I can tell, you can ask Unicode for the base (=unaccented) version >of a given character. I sounds like sun.text.Normalizer will be made public in >Java 6. > Wish : method unaccent > ---------------------- > > Key: LANG-285 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-285 > Project: Commons Lang > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Guillaume Coté > Priority: Minor > > I would like to add a method that replace accented caracter by unaccented > one. For example, with the input String "L'été où j'ai dû aller à l'île > d'Anticosti commenca tôt", the method would return "L'ete ou j'ai du aller à > l'ile d'Anticosti commenca tot". > I suggest to call that method unaccent and to add it in StringUtils. > If we cannot covert all case, the first version could only covert iso-8859-1. > If you are willing to go forward with that idea, I am willing to contribute a > patch. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
