stripdiacriticals(
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

- lower( -- converts text to lower case.
- mixedupperword( -- converts lower case words to Initial Caps, but leaves mixed case words alone.
- percentescape( -- encodes specified characters using percent encoding.
- percentunescape( -- decodes text that contains percent encoding.
- straightquotes( -- converts any "smart quotes" in the text into straight quotes.
- strip( -- strips off leading and trailing blanks and other whitespace (carriage returns, tabs, etc.)
- stripaccents( -- removes accents from any characters in the text.
- 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.
- switchmatch( -- chooses from a list of values based on a wildcard match.
- switchmatchexact( -- chooses from a list of values based on a wildcard match.
- titlecase( -- capitalizes first character of each word, but not articles, prepositions, and conjunctions under 5 characters (unless they are the first or last word in the text).
- upper( -- converts text to UPPER CASE (all caps).
- upperword( -- converts text to Initial Caps.
- urldecode( -- decodes text that contains percent encoded characters.
- urlencode( -- converts text into a legal URL (by converting spaces into `%20`). WARNING: THIS FUNCTION IS OBSOLETE.

History

Version | Status | Notes
10.0 | New | New in this version.