Is there any good library that performs conversation of umlauts and special characters to their "flat" representation? Eg:
Ä -> AE
Ü -> UE
ß -> ss
Anything you could advise?
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Martin Schröder
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are you specific to German umaluts? – Satheesh Cheveri Dec 06 '13 at 09:18
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at the moment, yes. But later maybe also other languages. – membersound Dec 06 '13 at 09:19
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1Hmm, shouldn't it be Ä -> Ae, Ö -> Oe, ... Never saw the version with the e being capitalized. Also what is preventing you to use String.replace function? Like this `String replaced = "Ärmel Über Öffnung".replace("Ä", "Ae").replace("Ö", "Oe").replace("Ü", "Ue");` – Matthias Dec 06 '13 at 09:28
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1You would use all-upercase AE when the whole word is capitalized (as found in headlines or emphasis) – DThought Dec 06 '13 at 09:41
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See [Rename ä, ö, ü to ae, oe, ue](http://stackoverflow.com/q/28943843) – Martin Schröder Mar 10 '15 at 17:07
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use StringUtils, This is not the well-known apache library . That is solve your issue.
replaceUmlauts
public static java.lang.String replaceUmlauts(java.lang.String string)
Replaces all umlauts in a string.
Umlaut Replacement
ä ae
ö oe
ü ue
ß ss
Parameters:
string - String, where the umlauts has to be replaced
Returns:
String without umlauts
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5I wouldn't trust that library to solve anything else than homework assignments. – Marko Topolnik Dec 06 '13 at 09:22
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2It’s not even a library. It’s an application which happens to contain such a class. Nobody says that other people are allowed to use the class for other programs. – Holger Dec 06 '13 at 09:32