Java String Accent removeAccentsAndNonStandardCharacters(String string)

Description

remove Accents And Non Standard Characters

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String removeAccentsAndNonStandardCharacters(String string) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*w  ww . j a  v a2s. c  o m*/
 *  Copyright (c) 2008 - Tomas Janecek.
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import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
    private static final Pattern CLEANUP_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("(\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+)|(\\W)");
    private static Method NORMALIZE_METHOD;
    private static Object NFD_VALUE;

    public static String removeAccentsAndNonStandardCharacters(String string) {
        String normalizedText = string;

        // Normalize text using a Normalizer if possible
        if (NORMALIZE_METHOD != null) {
            try {
                // Invoke the bellow via reflection
                // java.text.Normalizer.normalize(string, java.text.Normalizer.Form.NFD);

                // Normalize text
                normalizedText = (String) NORMALIZE_METHOD.invoke(null, string, NFD_VALUE);
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                normalizedText = string;
            }
        }

        // Update pattern.
        return CLEANUP_PATTERN.matcher(normalizedText).replaceAll("").toLowerCase();
    }
}

Related

1. removeAccents(String input)
2. removeAccents(String s)
3. removeAccents(String str)
4. removeAccents(String text)
5. removeAccents(String textWithAccent)
6. removeAccentuation(String str)
7. replaceAccent(String strInit)
8. replaceAccentedChars(StringBuilder buffer)
9. replaceAccents(String string)