Remove accents from a string

[mato]

Hi I want to replace for example

Collège Jacques Grüber

into

COLLEGE JACQUES GRUBER

Which means Capitalize (that I found already ) and remove the accents for any kind of accent in french é è ë ê à ù ç is there an easy way or do I have to search and replace for every kind of accent possible ?

Thanks for your help

[ComplexPoint]

@mato

remove the accents

In JavaScript:

.normalize("NFD")
.replace(/\p{Diacritic}/gu, "")
.toLocaleUpperCase()

so, for example:

Without diacritics.kmmacros (2.6 KB)

[carycrusiau]

I use this shell command:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;

use utf8;
binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");

use Encode ();
use Unicode::Normalize ();

my $s = Encode::decode('UTF-8', $ENV{KMVAR_Name}, 1);
$s = Unicode::Normalize::NFD($s);

$s =~ s/\pM//g;
print $s;

Rename files Selected in Path Finder and regex

The problem is that HFS defines the unicode as decomposed, so the accents are actually separate characters. So you probably could just replace the accent characters. But really the problem is that you are trying to do this yourself, when it is a task that has almost infinite complexity. Instead let some real system deal with it. For example, here is a Perl script solution that should work. The script is: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use diagnostics; use utf8; binmode(STDOUT,…

[mato]

Thx a lot guys - I tried ComplexPoint macro and it works perfectly !!!

Problem's solved for me its great