Am 17.09.16 um 23:19 schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
Peng Yu wrote:
Hi, I want to convert strings in which the characters with accents
should be converted to the ones without accents.
Why?
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./main.py Förstemann
AFAIK, “ä”, “ö”, and “ü” are not accented characters in any natural
language, but characters of their own (umlauts).
In particular, I know for certain that they are not accented in Germanic
languages. Swedish has been mentioned; I can add my native language,
German, to that list.
In German, they are letters, but they collate as either ae, oe, ue
(rarely) or a, o, u (modern style). Ad dictionary or phone book does not
have an "ö" section in Germany. Example from a German-Latin dictionary,
printed in 1958
Laster -> vitium
Lästerer -> homo maledicus
lasterhaft -> vitiosus
If "ä" would sort as a single letter, "Lästerer" would be the last
entry. If it would sort as "ae", it would be the first entry. Therfore,
in this example it sorts as "a", with "ä" > "a" to resolve a tie only.
Christian
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