Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-04 Thread Petite Abeille
On Nov 1, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Jennifer Wong wrote: > I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. While the > normalization process is straight forward (NFD, remove accents), it does not > take into account of special cases. For example, Danish, "å" should be mapped > to

VS: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-04 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
remove accents while conforming to language standards? 2013-11-04 21:00, Jennifer Wong wrote: > The use case is that customers want to integrate data from our > enterprise solution to their ASCII-based downstream systems. This is very different from the question about removing accents

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-04 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:00:17 + Jennifer Wong wrote: > Thank you everyone for your input. > > The use case is that customers want to integrate data from our > enterprise solution to their ASCII-based downstream systems. Thus all > accents need to be removed. Have you confirmed that they are u

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-04 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-11-04 21:00, Jennifer Wong wrote: The use case is that customers want to integrate data from our enterprise solution to their ASCII-based downstream systems. This is very different from the question about removing accents while conforming to language standards. The very goal makes it imp

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-04 Thread Jennifer Wong
icode@unicode.org>" mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> Subject: Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards? Hi Jennifer, On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Jennifer Wong mailto:jennifer.w...@workday.com>> wrote: I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from c

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-04 Thread Markus Scherer
Hi Jennifer, On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Jennifer Wong wrote: > I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. > While the normalization process is straight forward (NFD, remove accents), > it does not take into account of special cases. For example, Danish, "å" > should

RE: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-02 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
language standards? On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 07:32:44PM +0200, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2013-11-01 17:37, Jennifer Wong wrote: > > >I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. > > To address first the question you ask in the Subject line, “How to >

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-01 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
l question was formulated as “How to remove accents while > conforming to language standards?” Only if all you read is the subject. Yours, Ilya

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-01 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > Given that > the initial question was more or less explicitly formulated as “how to > minimize the losses?”, The initial question was formulated as “How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?” If the OP misf

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-01 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 07:32:44PM +0200, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2013-11-01 17:37, Jennifer Wong wrote: > > >I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. > > To address first the question you ask in the Subject line, “How to > remove accents while c

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-01 Thread Philippe Verdy
. 2013/11/1 Jukka K. Korpela > 2013-11-01 17:37, Jennifer Wong wrote: > > I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. >> > > To address first the question you ask in the Subject line, “How to remove > accents while conforming to language standards?

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 15:37:22 + Jennifer Wong wrote: > I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. Don't do it. > While the normalization process is straight forward (NFD, remove > accents), it does not take into account of special cases. For > example, Danish, "å" sho

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-01 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jennifer Wong wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. While > the normalization process is straight forward (NFD, remove accents), it does > not take into account of special cases. For example, Danish, "å" should be > map

Re: How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-01 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-11-01 17:37, Jennifer Wong wrote: I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. To address first the question you ask in the Subject line, “How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?”, but do not ask in the message body, the answer is: You can’t

How to remove accents while conforming to language standards?

2013-11-01 Thread Jennifer Wong
Hi, I would like to ask for advice on removing accents from characters. While the normalization process is straight forward (NFD, remove accents), it does not take into account of special cases. For example, Danish, "å" should be mapped to "aa", not "a". Likewise, in German, "ä" "ö" "ü" should