Java String Accent replaceAccentedChars(StringBuilder buffer)

Description

replace Accented Chars

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static int replaceAccentedChars(StringBuilder buffer) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.text.Normalizer;

public class Main {

    public static int replaceAccentedChars(StringBuilder buffer) {
        // save the size before we strip out the accents
        int sizeBefore = buffer.length();
        // each accented char will be converted into 2 chars -- the ascii version
        // followed by the accent character
        String s = Normalizer.normalize(buffer, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
        // new size will include accented chars
        int sizeAfter = s.length();
        // efficiency check #1 - if the length hasn't changed, do nothing
        int replaced = sizeAfter - sizeBefore;
        if (replaced <= 0) {
            return 0;
        }

        // replace the accents with nothing
        s = s.replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");
        buffer.setLength(0);
        buffer.append(s);

        return replaced;
    }
}

Related

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