Java String Accent stripAccents(String input)

Description

strip Accents

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String stripAccents(String input) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.text.Normalizer;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
    private static Pattern findAccentsPattern = Pattern.compile("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+");
    private static Map<Character, Character> visualEquivalents = new HashMap<>();

    public static String stripAccents(String input) {
        if (input == null) {
            return null;
        }//from   w  w w.j a v a 2  s .c o  m
        final String decomposed = Normalizer.normalize(input, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
        // Note that this doesn't correctly remove ligatures...
        String stripped = findAccentsPattern.matcher(decomposed).replaceAll("");
        for (Map.Entry<Character, Character> e : visualEquivalents.entrySet()) {
            stripped = stripped.replace(e.getKey(), e.getValue());
        }
        return stripped;
    }
}

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5. stripAccents(String input)
6. stripAccents(String input)
7. stripAccents(String v)
8. stripAccentsToLowerCase(String str)
9. toLatinUnaccented(String s)