Java String Accent getDeAccentLoweredChars(String word)

Description

get De Accent Lowered Chars

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static char[] getDeAccentLoweredChars(String word) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//  w w  w.j  av a2  s  .c  o m
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   * 
   * @author Wei Zhang,  Language Technology Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University.
   * email: wei.zhang@cs.cmu.edu
   * 
   */

import java.text.Normalizer;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
    static Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+");

    public static char[] getDeAccentLoweredChars(String word) {
        char[] chars = deAccent(word.toLowerCase()).toCharArray();
        return chars;
    }

    /**
       * Strip the accent of the Spanish characters.
       */

    public static String deAccent(String str) {
        String nfdNormalizedString = Normalizer.normalize(str, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
        return pattern.matcher(nfdNormalizedString).replaceAll("");
    }

    public static String[] replaceAll(String[] toks, String string, String string2) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        for (int i = 0; i < toks.length; i++) {
            toks[i] = toks[i].replaceAll(string, string2).trim();
        }
        return toks;
    }
}

Related

1. deleteAccents(String text)
2. equalsIgnoreAccents(String lhs, String rhs, Locale locale)
3. equalsIgnoreAccentsAndCase(String s1, String s2)
4. equalsIgnoreCaseAndAccent(String string1, String string2, Locale locale)
5. equalsStringIgnoringAccents(String str1, String str2)
6. normalizeByRemovingAccent(final String string)
7. removeAccent(String s)
8. removeAccent(String s)
9. removeAccent(String strIn)