Re: ASCIIfication (removal of accent, cedilla, etc)

On 08/29/12 21:46, Salman Halim wrote:
>> I've got some Portuguese text that I need to perform some
>> transformations on to make them ASCII (7-bit). That means
>> removing accent marks, cedillas, tildes, etc.
>>
>> Is there some fast transform in Vim that I've missed, or an
>> easy way to go about this?
>
> I don't believe there is something that will figure out the
> non-accented version of a given character, but you could do
> something similar using tr() by passing in "èéêëē" and "eeeee",
> for example.

Thanks to everybody for their suggestions. Playing around a little,
I went with using equivalence classes:

:%s/[[=a=]]/a/g|%s/[[=e=]]/e/g|...

which is still tedious, but at least a little less so. If there's
some magic method I've missed (this happens to be a work thing, so
I'm stuck on Win32 without the conversion utility mentioned
elsewhere in the thread), I'd love to know how to improve this.

-tim



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