RemoveDiacritics

RemoveDiacritics[string]

replaces characters in string that have diacritics by their base ASCII characters, when possible.

Details and Options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

Remove diacritic marks from a character:

Normalize an entire string:

Scope  (2)

RemoveDiacritics automatically threads over lists:

RemoveDiacritics works on strings of different scripts:

Options  (2)

Language  (2)

With Languagelang, RemoveDiacritics will not remove diacritics that are part of the basic alphabet of lang:

By default, Language option is set to $Language. Changing it has the same effect as setting the option:

Properties & Relations  (2)

For a specified language, applying RemoveDiacritics to the result of Alphabet should return the same list of letters:

Using AlphabeticOrder with IgnoreDiacritics->True is equivalent to using AlphabeticOrder after applying RemoveDiacritics:

Possible Issues  (1)

RemoveDiacritics breaks ligatures in basic ASCII characters when the ligature is not part of the language:

If it is part of the basic alphabet of the language, it only removes the diacritics:

Wolfram Research (2015), RemoveDiacritics, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RemoveDiacritics.html (updated 2015).

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), RemoveDiacritics, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RemoveDiacritics.html (updated 2015).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "RemoveDiacritics." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2015. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RemoveDiacritics.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). RemoveDiacritics. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RemoveDiacritics.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_removediacritics, author="Wolfram Research", title="{RemoveDiacritics}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RemoveDiacritics.html}", note=[Accessed: 03-December-2023 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2023_removediacritics, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={RemoveDiacritics}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RemoveDiacritics.html}, note=[Accessed: 03-December-2023 ]}