Re: [xsl] Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if a string contains a diacritic?

["Mark Wilson" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ken. I'll give it a try - I had no idea the function existed.
Mark

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From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:42 PM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [xsl] Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if a 
string contains a diacritic?

> At 2009-11-15 21:34 -0800, Mark Wilson wrote:
> > I need to render Czech language strings containing diacritics into strings 
> > with the diacritics removed. The Czech alphabet has 16 lower case 
> > diacritics and a somewhat smaller set of upper case diacritics. The 
> > strings are expressed in  UTF-8.
>
> The encoding is irrelevant to XSLT ... it is relevant to the XML processor 
> inside your XSLT processor in order to know what the Unicode characters 
> are, but XSLT just sees them as Unicode characters without an encoding.
>
> > I do not need to retain case, but I must locate and replace all 
> > diacritics.
> >
> > My only plan so far is construct a gigantic <xsl:choose> to find strings 
> > containing at least one diacritic. Then I would need a gigantic <xsl:if> 
> > to change each diacritic into its unaccented counterpart.
> >
> > I wonder if there is a simpler method for turning, for example, a word 
> > like "Safarmk" [S, r, m] into Safarik? Any ideas or suggestions,
>
> If you are using XSLT 2.0, have you tried:
>
>   normalize-unicode( $yourString, "NFC" )
>
> ... which will return fully formed characters from characters using 
> diacritics?
>
> For example, this converts U+0065 U+0301 into U+00E9.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . .  . Ken
>
>
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