As Corion said, it does a lot more. Probably too much for my use case.

And it's implemented by having many translation tables which are (manually?) maintained by the author. The last version is from 2016.

And I'd rather use unicode properties directly to always stay up to date.

last but not least, it doesn't provide me equivalent classes for specific latin characters. Just one function unidecode to "flatten" all input to latin characters if possible.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: Normalizing diacritics in (regex) search by LanX
in thread Normalizing diacritics in (regex) search by LanX

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