Re: [xsl] [XSLT 2 or 3 - Diacritics] Removal

["Christophe Marchand cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Graydon ! That's what I was looking for.
Christophe

Le 08/08/2022 C  15:43, Graydon graydon@xxxxxxxxx a C)critB :
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 01:14:53PM -0000, Christophe Marchand cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx scripsit:
> > I want to translate all accented chars into their non-accented version :
> >
> > C) -> e
> > C -> E
> > C' -> c
> >
> > I can not remember the diacritic unicode block name to match them and use it
> > in replace(2).
> >
> > Does someone remember it ?
> I think you mean the Unicode decomposition trick to get rid of all the
> accents:
>
> <xsl:sequence
>        select="normalize-unicode($accents, 'NFD') => replace('\p{Mn}', '') => normalize-unicode('NFC')"
>       />
>
> (I think Mn is "Mark, nonspacing"; officially M is "Combining
> Diacritical Marks".)
>
> With the caveat that some things that look like accented characters are
> real letters so far as the Unicode committee is concerned and this
> doesn't work.  (E.g., A-ring, U+00C5 and U+00E5, keeps the ring.)