stripdiacriticals(
TEXT
)
The stripdiacriticals( function strips diacritical marks from text.
Parameters
This function has one parameter:
text – the item of text that you want to strip.
Description
This function removes diacritical marks (umlauts, etc.) from letters. Here are three examples of how this function works.
stripdiacriticals("Álgebra") ☞ Algebra
stripdiacriticals("dän") ☞ dan
stripdiacriticals("dün") ☞ dun
See Also
- percentescape( -- encodes specified characters using percent encoding.
- percentunescape( -- decodes text that contains percent encoding.
- strip( -- strips off leading and trailing blanks and other whitespace (carriage returns, tabs, etc.)
- stripchar( -- extracts characters you don't want from a text item.
- stripprintable( -- strips non-printable characters from text.
- striptoalpha( -- removes everything but alphabetic letters from a text item.
- striptonum( -- removes everything but numeric digits from a text item.
- urldecode( -- decodes text that contains percent encoded characters.
- urlencode( -- converts text into a legal URL (by converting spaces into `%20`).
History
10.0 | New | New in this version. |