Re^2: Normalizing diacritics in (regex) search

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I'm also very fond of Text::Unidecode, but it does slightly more. It also transliterates some non-Latin script into Latin, and it transliterates German umlauts to their German equivalents, like ä to ae.

But for a quick first stab, using Text::Unidecode does 90% of what one wants.

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Re^3: Normalizing diacritics in (regex) search by LanX (Saint) on Nov 25, 2025 at 03:22 UTC
> and it transliterates German umlauts to their German equivalents, like ä to ae. Ähm ... actually,no! It's very vocal that you have to do it by yourself https://metacpan.org/pod/Text%3A%3AUnidecode#WHEN-YOU-DON'T-LIKE-WHAT-UNIDECODE-DOES Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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