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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