Re: How do I normalize (e.g. strip) diacritical märks from a Unicode string?

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I don't think that this kind of "normalizing" is a good idea. In German, "Bär" und "Bar" are two very different things, and stripping a Bär doesn't make entering it more attractive.

Alexander

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Re: Answer: How do I normalize (e.g. strip) diacritical märks from a Unicode string? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2010 at 07:24 UTC
This (like stemming) is often done for search engines .	[reply]

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