Easy way to remove accents from a Unicode string?
JavaStringUnicodeDiacriticsJava Problem Overview
I want to change this sentence :
> Et ça sera sa moitié.
To :
> Et ca sera sa moitie.
Is there an easy way to do this in Java, like I would do in Objective-C ?
NSString *str = @"Et ça sera sa moitié.";
NSData *data = [str dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *newStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
Java Solutions
Solution 1 - Java
Finally, I've solved it by using the Normalizer
class.
import java.text.Normalizer;
public static String stripAccents(String s)
{
s = Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
s = s.replaceAll("[\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}]", "");
return s;
}
Solution 2 - Java
Maybe the easiest and safest way is using StringUtils
from Apache Commons Lang
StringUtils.stripAccents(String input)
> Removes diacritics (~= accents) from a string. The case will not be > altered. For instance, 'à' will be replaced by 'a'. Note that > ligatures will be left as is.
StringUtils.stripAccents()
Solution 3 - Java
I guess the only difference is that I use a +
and not a []
compared to the solution. I think both works, but it's better to have it here as well.
String normalized = Normalizer.normalize(input, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
String accentRemoved = normalized.replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");
Solution 4 - Java
For kotlin
fun stripAccents(s: String): String
{
var string = Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFD)
string = Regex("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+").replace(string, "")
return string
}
Solution 5 - Java
Assuming you are using Java 6 or newer, you might want to take a look at Normalizer
, which can decompose accents, then use a regex to strip the combining accents.
Otherwise, you should be able to achieve the same result using ICU4J
.