在JavaScript中删除string中的重音/变音符号

如何从string中删除突出的字符? 特别是在IE6中,我有这样的东西:

accentsTidy = function(s){ var r=s.toLowerCase(); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/\s/g),""); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[àáâãäå]/g),"a"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/æ/g),"ae"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/ç/g),"c"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[èéêë]/g),"e"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[ìíîï]/g),"i"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/ñ/g),"n"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[òóôõö]/g),"o"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/œ/g),"oe"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[ùúûü]/g),"u"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[ýÿ]/g),"y"); r = r.replace(new RegExp(/\W/g),""); return r; }; 

但IE6错误的,似乎不喜欢我的正则expression式。

使用ES2015 / ES6 String.Prototype.Normalize() ,

 const str = "Crème Brulée" str.normalize('NFD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "") > 'Creme Brulee' 

这里发生了两件事情:

  1. normalize()NFD Unicode规范forms将组合的字素分解成简单的组合。 Crèmeè最终expression为e + ̀
  2. 使用正则expression式字符类来匹配U + 0300→U + 036F范围,现在可以摆脱Unicode标准方便地组合为Diagritical Marks Unicode块的变音符号 。

请参阅性能testing评论。

我稍微修改了khel版本的原因之一:每个正则expression式parsing/replace将花费O(n)操作,其中n是目标文本中的字符数。 但是,正则expression式并不是我们所需要的。 所以:

 /* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ var defaultDiacriticsRemovalMap = [ {'base':'A', 'letters':'\u0041\u24B6\uFF21\u00C0\u00C1\u00C2\u1EA6\u1EA4\u1EAA\u1EA8\u00C3\u0100\u0102\u1EB0\u1EAE\u1EB4\u1EB2\u0226\u01E0\u00C4\u01DE\u1EA2\u00C5\u01FA\u01CD\u0200\u0202\u1EA0\u1EAC\u1EB6\u1E00\u0104\u023A\u2C6F'}, {'base':'AA','letters':'\uA732'}, {'base':'AE','letters':'\u00C6\u01FC\u01E2'}, {'base':'AO','letters':'\uA734'}, {'base':'AU','letters':'\uA736'}, {'base':'AV','letters':'\uA738\uA73A'}, {'base':'AY','letters':'\uA73C'}, {'base':'B', 'letters':'\u0042\u24B7\uFF22\u1E02\u1E04\u1E06\u0243\u0182\u0181'}, {'base':'C', 'letters':'\u0043\u24B8\uFF23\u0106\u0108\u010A\u010C\u00C7\u1E08\u0187\u023B\uA73E'}, {'base':'D', 'letters':'\u0044\u24B9\uFF24\u1E0A\u010E\u1E0C\u1E10\u1E12\u1E0E\u0110\u018B\u018A\u0189\uA779\u00D0'}, {'base':'DZ','letters':'\u01F1\u01C4'}, {'base':'Dz','letters':'\u01F2\u01C5'}, {'base':'E', 'letters':'\u0045\u24BA\uFF25\u00C8\u00C9\u00CA\u1EC0\u1EBE\u1EC4\u1EC2\u1EBC\u0112\u1E14\u1E16\u0114\u0116\u00CB\u1EBA\u011A\u0204\u0206\u1EB8\u1EC6\u0228\u1E1C\u0118\u1E18\u1E1A\u0190\u018E'}, {'base':'F', 'letters':'\u0046\u24BB\uFF26\u1E1E\u0191\uA77B'}, {'base':'G', 'letters':'\u0047\u24BC\uFF27\u01F4\u011C\u1E20\u011E\u0120\u01E6\u0122\u01E4\u0193\uA7A0\uA77D\uA77E'}, {'base':'H', 'letters':'\u0048\u24BD\uFF28\u0124\u1E22\u1E26\u021E\u1E24\u1E28\u1E2A\u0126\u2C67\u2C75\uA78D'}, {'base':'I', 'letters':'\u0049\u24BE\uFF29\u00CC\u00CD\u00CE\u0128\u012A\u012C\u0130\u00CF\u1E2E\u1EC8\u01CF\u0208\u020A\u1ECA\u012E\u1E2C\u0197'}, {'base':'J', 'letters':'\u004A\u24BF\uFF2A\u0134\u0248'}, {'base':'K', 'letters':'\u004B\u24C0\uFF2B\u1E30\u01E8\u1E32\u0136\u1E34\u0198\u2C69\uA740\uA742\uA744\uA7A2'}, {'base':'L', 'letters':'\u004C\u24C1\uFF2C\u013F\u0139\u013D\u1E36\u1E38\u013B\u1E3C\u1E3A\u0141\u023D\u2C62\u2C60\uA748\uA746\uA780'}, {'base':'LJ','letters':'\u01C7'}, {'base':'Lj','letters':'\u01C8'}, {'base':'M', 'letters':'\u004D\u24C2\uFF2D\u1E3E\u1E40\u1E42\u2C6E\u019C'}, {'base':'N', 'letters':'\u004E\u24C3\uFF2E\u01F8\u0143\u00D1\u1E44\u0147\u1E46\u0145\u1E4A\u1E48\u0220\u019D\uA790\uA7A4'}, {'base':'NJ','letters':'\u01CA'}, {'base':'Nj','letters':'\u01CB'}, {'base':'O', 'letters':'\u004F\u24C4\uFF2F\u00D2\u00D3\u00D4\u1ED2\u1ED0\u1ED6\u1ED4\u00D5\u1E4C\u022C\u1E4E\u014C\u1E50\u1E52\u014E\u022E\u0230\u00D6\u022A\u1ECE\u0150\u01D1\u020C\u020E\u01A0\u1EDC\u1EDA\u1EE0\u1EDE\u1EE2\u1ECC\u1ED8\u01EA\u01EC\u00D8\u01FE\u0186\u019F\uA74A\uA74C'}, {'base':'OI','letters':'\u01A2'}, {'base':'OO','letters':'\uA74E'}, {'base':'OU','letters':'\u0222'}, {'base':'OE','letters':'\u008C\u0152'}, {'base':'oe','letters':'\u009C\u0153'}, {'base':'P', 'letters':'\u0050\u24C5\uFF30\u1E54\u1E56\u01A4\u2C63\uA750\uA752\uA754'}, {'base':'Q', 'letters':'\u0051\u24C6\uFF31\uA756\uA758\u024A'}, {'base':'R', 'letters':'\u0052\u24C7\uFF32\u0154\u1E58\u0158\u0210\u0212\u1E5A\u1E5C\u0156\u1E5E\u024C\u2C64\uA75A\uA7A6\uA782'}, {'base':'S', 'letters':'\u0053\u24C8\uFF33\u1E9E\u015A\u1E64\u015C\u1E60\u0160\u1E66\u1E62\u1E68\u0218\u015E\u2C7E\uA7A8\uA784'}, {'base':'T', 'letters':'\u0054\u24C9\uFF34\u1E6A\u0164\u1E6C\u021A\u0162\u1E70\u1E6E\u0166\u01AC\u01AE\u023E\uA786'}, {'base':'TZ','letters':'\uA728'}, {'base':'U', 'letters':'\u0055\u24CA\uFF35\u00D9\u00DA\u00DB\u0168\u1E78\u016A\u1E7A\u016C\u00DC\u01DB\u01D7\u01D5\u01D9\u1EE6\u016E\u0170\u01D3\u0214\u0216\u01AF\u1EEA\u1EE8\u1EEE\u1EEC\u1EF0\u1EE4\u1E72\u0172\u1E76\u1E74\u0244'}, {'base':'V', 'letters':'\u0056\u24CB\uFF36\u1E7C\u1E7E\u01B2\uA75E\u0245'}, {'base':'VY','letters':'\uA760'}, {'base':'W', 'letters':'\u0057\u24CC\uFF37\u1E80\u1E82\u0174\u1E86\u1E84\u1E88\u2C72'}, {'base':'X', 'letters':'\u0058\u24CD\uFF38\u1E8A\u1E8C'}, {'base':'Y', 'letters':'\u0059\u24CE\uFF39\u1EF2\u00DD\u0176\u1EF8\u0232\u1E8E\u0178\u1EF6\u1EF4\u01B3\u024E\u1EFE'}, {'base':'Z', 'letters':'\u005A\u24CF\uFF3A\u0179\u1E90\u017B\u017D\u1E92\u1E94\u01B5\u0224\u2C7F\u2C6B\uA762'}, {'base':'a', 'letters':'\u0061\u24D0\uFF41\u1E9A\u00E0\u00E1\u00E2\u1EA7\u1EA5\u1EAB\u1EA9\u00E3\u0101\u0103\u1EB1\u1EAF\u1EB5\u1EB3\u0227\u01E1\u00E4\u01DF\u1EA3\u00E5\u01FB\u01CE\u0201\u0203\u1EA1\u1EAD\u1EB7\u1E01\u0105\u2C65\u0250'}, {'base':'aa','letters':'\uA733'}, {'base':'ae','letters':'\u00E6\u01FD\u01E3'}, {'base':'ao','letters':'\uA735'}, {'base':'au','letters':'\uA737'}, {'base':'av','letters':'\uA739\uA73B'}, {'base':'ay','letters':'\uA73D'}, {'base':'b', 'letters':'\u0062\u24D1\uFF42\u1E03\u1E05\u1E07\u0180\u0183\u0253'}, {'base':'c', 'letters':'\u0063\u24D2\uFF43\u0107\u0109\u010B\u010D\u00E7\u1E09\u0188\u023C\uA73F\u2184'}, {'base':'d', 'letters':'\u0064\u24D3\uFF44\u1E0B\u010F\u1E0D\u1E11\u1E13\u1E0F\u0111\u018C\u0256\u0257\uA77A'}, {'base':'dz','letters':'\u01F3\u01C6'}, {'base':'e', 'letters':'\u0065\u24D4\uFF45\u00E8\u00E9\u00EA\u1EC1\u1EBF\u1EC5\u1EC3\u1EBD\u0113\u1E15\u1E17\u0115\u0117\u00EB\u1EBB\u011B\u0205\u0207\u1EB9\u1EC7\u0229\u1E1D\u0119\u1E19\u1E1B\u0247\u025B\u01DD'}, {'base':'f', 'letters':'\u0066\u24D5\uFF46\u1E1F\u0192\uA77C'}, {'base':'g', 'letters':'\u0067\u24D6\uFF47\u01F5\u011D\u1E21\u011F\u0121\u01E7\u0123\u01E5\u0260\uA7A1\u1D79\uA77F'}, {'base':'h', 'letters':'\u0068\u24D7\uFF48\u0125\u1E23\u1E27\u021F\u1E25\u1E29\u1E2B\u1E96\u0127\u2C68\u2C76\u0265'}, {'base':'hv','letters':'\u0195'}, {'base':'i', 'letters':'\u0069\u24D8\uFF49\u00EC\u00ED\u00EE\u0129\u012B\u012D\u00EF\u1E2F\u1EC9\u01D0\u0209\u020B\u1ECB\u012F\u1E2D\u0268\u0131'}, {'base':'j', 'letters':'\u006A\u24D9\uFF4A\u0135\u01F0\u0249'}, {'base':'k', 'letters':'\u006B\u24DA\uFF4B\u1E31\u01E9\u1E33\u0137\u1E35\u0199\u2C6A\uA741\uA743\uA745\uA7A3'}, {'base':'l', 'letters':'\u006C\u24DB\uFF4C\u0140\u013A\u013E\u1E37\u1E39\u013C\u1E3D\u1E3B\u017F\u0142\u019A\u026B\u2C61\uA749\uA781\uA747'}, {'base':'lj','letters':'\u01C9'}, {'base':'m', 'letters':'\u006D\u24DC\uFF4D\u1E3F\u1E41\u1E43\u0271\u026F'}, {'base':'n', 'letters':'\u006E\u24DD\uFF4E\u01F9\u0144\u00F1\u1E45\u0148\u1E47\u0146\u1E4B\u1E49\u019E\u0272\u0149\uA791\uA7A5'}, {'base':'nj','letters':'\u01CC'}, {'base':'o', 'letters':'\u006F\u24DE\uFF4F\u00F2\u00F3\u00F4\u1ED3\u1ED1\u1ED7\u1ED5\u00F5\u1E4D\u022D\u1E4F\u014D\u1E51\u1E53\u014F\u022F\u0231\u00F6\u022B\u1ECF\u0151\u01D2\u020D\u020F\u01A1\u1EDD\u1EDB\u1EE1\u1EDF\u1EE3\u1ECD\u1ED9\u01EB\u01ED\u00F8\u01FF\u0254\uA74B\uA74D\u0275'}, {'base':'oi','letters':'\u01A3'}, {'base':'ou','letters':'\u0223'}, {'base':'oo','letters':'\uA74F'}, {'base':'p','letters':'\u0070\u24DF\uFF50\u1E55\u1E57\u01A5\u1D7D\uA751\uA753\uA755'}, {'base':'q','letters':'\u0071\u24E0\uFF51\u024B\uA757\uA759'}, {'base':'r','letters':'\u0072\u24E1\uFF52\u0155\u1E59\u0159\u0211\u0213\u1E5B\u1E5D\u0157\u1E5F\u024D\u027D\uA75B\uA7A7\uA783'}, {'base':'s','letters':'\u0073\u24E2\uFF53\u00DF\u015B\u1E65\u015D\u1E61\u0161\u1E67\u1E63\u1E69\u0219\u015F\u023F\uA7A9\uA785\u1E9B'}, {'base':'t','letters':'\u0074\u24E3\uFF54\u1E6B\u1E97\u0165\u1E6D\u021B\u0163\u1E71\u1E6F\u0167\u01AD\u0288\u2C66\uA787'}, {'base':'tz','letters':'\uA729'}, {'base':'u','letters': '\u0075\u24E4\uFF55\u00F9\u00FA\u00FB\u0169\u1E79\u016B\u1E7B\u016D\u00FC\u01DC\u01D8\u01D6\u01DA\u1EE7\u016F\u0171\u01D4\u0215\u0217\u01B0\u1EEB\u1EE9\u1EEF\u1EED\u1EF1\u1EE5\u1E73\u0173\u1E77\u1E75\u0289'}, {'base':'v','letters':'\u0076\u24E5\uFF56\u1E7D\u1E7F\u028B\uA75F\u028C'}, {'base':'vy','letters':'\uA761'}, {'base':'w','letters':'\u0077\u24E6\uFF57\u1E81\u1E83\u0175\u1E87\u1E85\u1E98\u1E89\u2C73'}, {'base':'x','letters':'\u0078\u24E7\uFF58\u1E8B\u1E8D'}, {'base':'y','letters':'\u0079\u24E8\uFF59\u1EF3\u00FD\u0177\u1EF9\u0233\u1E8F\u00FF\u1EF7\u1E99\u1EF5\u01B4\u024F\u1EFF'}, {'base':'z','letters':'\u007A\u24E9\uFF5A\u017A\u1E91\u017C\u017E\u1E93\u1E95\u01B6\u0225\u0240\u2C6C\uA763'} ]; var diacriticsMap = {}; for (var i=0; i < defaultDiacriticsRemovalMap .length; i++){ var letters = defaultDiacriticsRemovalMap [i].letters; for (var j=0; j < letters.length ; j++){ diacriticsMap[letters[j]] = defaultDiacriticsRemovalMap [i].base; } } // "what?" version ... http://jsperf.com/diacritics/12 function removeDiacritics (str) { return str.replace(/[^\u0000-\u007E]/g, function(a){ return diacriticsMap[a] || a; }); } var paragraph = "L'avantage d'utiliser le lorem ipsum est bien évidemment de pouvoir créer des maquettes ou de remplir un site internet de contenus qui présentent un rendu s'approchant un maximum du rendu final. \n Par défaut lorem ipsum ne contient pas d'accent ni de caractères spéciaux contrairement à la langue française qui en contient beaucoup. C'est sur ce critère que nous proposons une solution avec cet outil qui générant du faux-texte lorem ipsum mais avec en plus, des caractères spéciaux tel que les accents ou certains symboles utiles pour la langue française. \n L'utilisation du lorem standard est facile d'utilisation mais lorsque le futur client utilisera votre logiciel il se peut que certains caractères spéciaux ou qu'un accent ne soient pas codés correctement. \n Cette page a pour but donc de pouvoir perdre le moins de temps possible et donc de tester directement si tous les encodages de base de donnée ou des sites sont les bons de plus il permet de récuperer un code css avec le texte formaté !"; alert(removeDiacritics(paragraph)); 

一个更完整的版本,区分大小写的支持,连字和什么。 原文出处: http : //lehelk.com/2011/05/06/script-to-remove-diacritics/

 var defaultDiacriticsRemovalMap = [ {'base':'A', 'letters':/[\u0041\u24B6\uFF21\u00C0\u00C1\u00C2\u1EA6\u1EA4\u1EAA\u1EA8\u00C3\u0100\u0102\u1EB0\u1EAE\u1EB4\u1EB2\u0226\u01E0\u00C4\u01DE\u1EA2\u00C5\u01FA\u01CD\u0200\u0202\u1EA0\u1EAC\u1EB6\u1E00\u0104\u023A\u2C6F]/g}, {'base':'AA','letters':/[\uA732]/g}, {'base':'AE','letters':/[\u00C6\u01FC\u01E2]/g}, {'base':'AO','letters':/[\uA734]/g}, {'base':'AU','letters':/[\uA736]/g}, {'base':'AV','letters':/[\uA738\uA73A]/g}, {'base':'AY','letters':/[\uA73C]/g}, {'base':'B', 'letters':/[\u0042\u24B7\uFF22\u1E02\u1E04\u1E06\u0243\u0182\u0181]/g}, {'base':'C', 'letters':/[\u0043\u24B8\uFF23\u0106\u0108\u010A\u010C\u00C7\u1E08\u0187\u023B\uA73E]/g}, {'base':'D', 'letters':/[\u0044\u24B9\uFF24\u1E0A\u010E\u1E0C\u1E10\u1E12\u1E0E\u0110\u018B\u018A\u0189\uA779]/g}, {'base':'DZ','letters':/[\u01F1\u01C4]/g}, {'base':'Dz','letters':/[\u01F2\u01C5]/g}, {'base':'E', 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这是一个非常快速的基于Unicode标准的脚本,从这里取得: http : //semplicewebsites.com/removing-accents-javascript

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String.prototype.latinise=function(){return this.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\[\] ]/g,function(a){return Latinise.latin_map[a]||a})}; String.prototype.latinize=String.prototype.latinise; String.prototype.isLatin=function(){return this==this.latinise()} 

一些例子:

 > "Piqué".latinize(); "Pique" > "Piqué".isLatin(); false > "Pique".isLatin(); true > "Piqué".latinise().isLatin(); true 

To ensure the above latin_map doesn't get corrupted by copy/pasting or other transformations, use this base64 encoded string, replacing the first line of the above:

 var base64map="eyLDgSI+IjoiRSIsIuG+IjoiQyIsIsaOIjoiRSIsIsWaIjoiUyIsIuG5pCI6IlMiLCLFoCI6IlMiLCLhuaYiOiJTIiwixZ4iOiJTIiwixZwiOiJTIiwiyJgiOiJTIiwi4bmgIjoiUyIsIuG5oiI6IlMiLCLhuagiOiJTIiwixaQiOiJUIiwixaIiOiJUIiwi4bmwIjoiVCIsIsiaIjoiVCIsIsi+IjoiVCIsIuG+IjoiViIsIsayIjoiViIsIuG/IjoibyIsIsO1IjoibyIsIuG5jSI6Im8iLCLhuY8iOiJvIiwiyK0iOiJvIiwixqMiOiJvaSIsIuqdjyI6Im9vIiwiyZsiOiJlIiwi4baTIjoiZSIsIsmUIjoibyIsIuG2lyI6Im8iLCLIoyI6Im91Iiwi4bmVIjoicCIsIuG5lyI6InAiLCLqnZMiOiJwIiwixqUiOiJwIiwi4bWxIjoicCIsIuG2iCI6InAiLCLqnZUiOiJwIiwi4bW9IjoicCIsIuqdkSI6InAiLCLqnZkiOiJxIiwiyqAiOiJxIiwiyYsiOiJxIiwi6p2XIjoicSIsIsWVIjoiciIsIsWZIjoiciIsIsWXIjoiciIsIuG5mSI6InIiLCLhuZsiOiJyIiwi4bmdIjoiciIsIsiRIjoiciIsIsm+IjoiciIsIuG1syI6InIiLCLIkyI6InIiLCLhuZ8iOiJyIiwiybwiOiJyIiwi4bWyIjoiciIsIuG2iSI6InIiLCLJjSI6InIiLCLJvSI6InIiLCLihoQiOiJjIiwi6py/IjoiYyIsIsmYIjoiZSIsIsm/IjoiciIsIsWbIjoicyIsIuG/IjoieSIsIsizIjoieSIsIuG6mSI6InkiLCLJjyI6InkiLCLhu7kiOiJ5IiwixboiOiJ6Iiwixb4iOiJ6Iiwi4bqRIjoieiIsIsqRIjoieiIsIuKxrCI6InoiLCLFvCI6InoiLCLhupMiOiJ6IiwiyKUiOiJ6Iiwi4bqVIjoieiIsIuG1tiI6InoiLCLhto4iOiJ6IiwiypAiOiJ6IiwixrYiOiJ6IiwiyYAiOiJ6Iiwi76yAIjoiZmYiLCLvrIMiOiJmZmkiLCLvrIQiOiJmZmwiLCLvrIEiOiJmaSIsIu+sgiI6ImZsIiwixLMiOiJpaiIsIsWTIjoib2UiLCLvrIYiOiJzdCIsIuKCkCI6ImEiLCLigpEiOiJlIiwi4bWiIjoiaSIsIuKxvCI6ImoiLCLigpIiOiJvIiwi4bWjIjoiciIsIuG1pCI6InUiLCLhtaUiOiJ2Iiwi4oKTIjoieCJ9"; var Latinise={};Latinise.latin_map=JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(escape(atob(base64map)))); 

The format for new RegExp is

 RegExp(something, 'modifiers'); 

So you would want

 accentsTidy = function(s){ var r=s.toLowerCase(); r = r.replace(new RegExp("\\s", 'g'),""); r = r.replace(new RegExp("[àáâãäå]", 'g'),"a"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("æ", 'g'),"ae"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("ç", 'g'),"c"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("[èéêë]", 'g'),"e"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("[ìíîï]", 'g'),"i"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("ñ", 'g'),"n"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("[òóôõö]", 'g'),"o"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("œ", 'g'),"oe"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("[ùúûü]", 'g'),"u"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("[ýÿ]", 'g'),"y"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("\\W", 'g'),""); return r; }; 

Shortened code based on the excellent solution by Ian Elliott:

 accentsTidy = function(s){ var r = s.toLowerCase(); non_asciis = {'a': '[àáâãäå]', 'ae': 'æ', 'c': 'ç', 'e': '[èéêë]', 'i': '[ìíîï]', 'n': 'ñ', 'o': '[òóôõö]', 'oe': 'œ', 'u': '[ùúûűü]', 'y': '[ýÿ]'}; for (i in non_asciis) { r = r.replace(new RegExp(non_asciis[i], 'g'), i); } return r; }; 

Edit: Corrected non-working code

I have forked billy 's code http://jsfiddle.net/billybraga/UHmnf/ (from his post ) into this: http://jsfiddle.net/infralabs/dJX58/

I corrected transcription of ſ and ß characters and also added coversion of these ones: Þþ , Ðð , Ŋŋ , IJij , Œœ .

The modified snippet is below:

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UPDATE April 6 2014 : Removed false information based on broken test. 对不起。 Use @rdllopez's unicode range solution.

One solution that seems to be way faster by the given test :

See the jsPerf : http://jsperf.com/diacritics/9

 function removeDiacritics(str) { return str.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\s]+/g, function(a){ return diacriticsMap[a] || a; }); } removeDiacritics(teste); 

Working example: http://jsbin.com/sovorute/1/edit

Reasoning : One reason this is much faster is because we only iterate through the special characters, picked by the negated regex pattern. The fastest of the tests ( String Iteration without in ) iterates 1001 on the given text, which means every character . This one iterates only 35 times and outputs the same result . Keep in mind that this will only replace what is indicated in the map.

Classic article on the subject: http://alistapart.com/article/accent-folding-for-auto-complete

Credit : http://semplicewebsites.com/removing-accents-javascript , also provides a nice character map.

Here's my modified version of lehelk.com 's version that also removes html entites that are accents :

http://jsfiddle.net/billybraga/UHmnf/

I still don't know about performance, though…

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/(&#117;|&#9444;|&#65365;|&#249;|&#250;|&#251;|&#361;|&#7801;|&#363;|&#7803;|&#365;|&#252;|&#476;|&#472;|&#470;|&#474;|&#7911;|&#367;|&#369;|&#468;|&#533;|&#535;|&#432;|&#7915;|&#7913;|&#7919;|&#7917;|&#7921;|&#7909;|&#7795;|&#371;|&#7799;|&#7797;|&#649;|[\u0075\u24E4\uFF55\u00F9\u00FA\u00FB\u0169\u1E79\u016B\u1E7B\u016D\u00FC\u01DC\u01D8\u01D6\u01DA\u1EE7\u016F\u0171\u01D4\u0215\u0217\u01B0\u1EEB\u1EE9\u1EEF\u1EED\u1EF1\u1EE5\u1E73\u0173\u1E77\u1E75\u0289])/g}, { 'base': "v", 'letters': /(&#118;|&#9445;|&#65366;|&#7805;|&#7807;|&#651;|&#42847;|&#652;|[\u0076\u24E5\uFF56\u1E7D\u1E7F\u028B\uA75F\u028C])/g}, { 'base': "vy", 'letters': /(&#42849;|[\uA761])/g}, { 'base': "w", 'letters': /(&#119;|&#9446;|&#65367;|&#7809;|&#7811;|&#373;|&#7815;|&#7813;|&#7832;|&#7817;|&#11379;|[\u0077\u24E6\uFF57\u1E81\u1E83\u0175\u1E87\u1E85\u1E98\u1E89\u2C73])/g}, { 'base': "x", 'letters': /(&#120;|&#9447;|&#65368;|&#7819;|&#7821;|[\u0078\u24E7\uFF58\u1E8B\u1E8D])/g}, { 'base': "y", 'letters': /(&#121;|&#9448;|&#65369;|&#7923;|&#253;|&#375;|&#7929;|&#563;|&#7823;|&#255;|&#7927;|&#7833;|&#7925;|&#436;|&#591;|&#7935;|[\u0079\u24E8\uFF59\u1EF3\u00FD\u0177\u1EF9\u0233\u1E8F\u00FF\u1EF7\u1E99\u1EF5\u01B4\u024F\u1EFF])/g}, { 'base': "z", 'letters': /(&#122;|&#9449;|&#65370;|&#378;|&#7825;|&#380;|&#382;|&#7827;|&#7829;|&#438;|&#549;|&#576;|&#11372;|&#42851;|[\u007A\u24E9\uFF5A\u017A\u1E91\u017C\u017E\u1E93\u1E95\u01B6\u0225\u0240\u2C6C\uA763])/g}]; function removeDiacritics(str) { for (var i = 0; i < defaultDiacriticsRemovalMap.length; i++) { str = str.replace(defaultDiacriticsRemovalMap[i].letters, defaultDiacriticsRemovalMap[i].base); } return str; } 

thanks to all
I use this version and say why (because I misses those explanations at the begining, so I try to help the next reader if he is as dull as me …)

Remark : I wanted an efficient solution, so :

  • only one regexp compilation (if needed)
  • only one string scan for each string
  • an efficient way to find the translated characters etc …

My version is :
(there is no new technical trick inside it, only some selected ones + explanations why)

 makeSortString = (function() { var translate_re = /[¹²³áàâãäåaaaÀÁÂÃÄÅAAAÆccç©CCÇÐÐèéê?ëeeeeeÈÊË?EEEEE€gGiìíîïìiiiÌÍÎÏ?ÌIIIlLnnñNNÑòóôõöoooøÒÓÔÕÖOOOØŒr®Ršs?ߊS?ùúûüuuuuÙÚÛÜUUUUýÿÝŸžzzŽZZ]/g; var translate = { "¹":"1","²":"2","³":"3","á":"a","à":"a","â":"a","ã":"a","ä":"a","å":"a","a":"a","a":"a","a":"a","À":"a","Á":"a","Â":"a","Ã":"a","Ä":"a","Å":"a","A":"a","A":"a", "A":"a","Æ":"a","c":"c","c":"c","ç":"c","©":"c","C":"c","C":"c","Ç":"c","Ð":"d","Ð":"d","è":"e","é":"e","ê":"e","?":"e","ë":"e","e":"e","e":"e","e":"e","e":"e", "e":"e","È":"e","Ê":"e","Ë":"e","?":"e","E":"e","E":"e","E":"e","E":"e","E":"e","€":"e","g":"g","G":"g","i":"i","ì":"i","í":"i","î":"i","ï":"i","ì":"i","i":"i", "i":"i","i":"i","Ì":"i","Í":"i","Î":"i","Ï":"i","?":"i","Ì":"i","I":"i","I":"i","I":"i","l":"l","L":"l","n":"n","n":"n","ñ":"n","N":"n","N":"n","Ñ":"n","ò":"o", "ó":"o","ô":"o","õ":"o","ö":"o","o":"o","o":"o","o":"o","ø":"o","Ò":"o","Ó":"o","Ô":"o","Õ":"o","Ö":"o","O":"o","O":"o","O":"o","Ø":"o","Œ":"o","r":"r","®":"r", "R":"r","š":"s","s":"s","?":"s","ß":"s","Š":"s","S":"s","?":"s","ù":"u","ú":"u","û":"u","ü":"u","u":"u","u":"u","u":"u","u":"u","Ù":"u","Ú":"u","Û":"u","Ü":"u", "U":"u","U":"u","U":"u","U":"u","ý":"y","ÿ":"y","Ý":"y","Ÿ":"y","ž":"z","z":"z","z":"z","Ž":"z","Z":"z","Z":"z" }; return function(s) { return(s.replace(translate_re, function(match){return translate[match];}) ); } })(); 

and I use it this way :

 var without_accents = makeSortString("wïthêüÄTrèsBïgüeAk100t"); // I let you guess the result, // no I was kidding you : I give you the result : witheuatresbigueak100t 

注释 :

  • Tthe instruction inside it is done once (after, makeSortString != undefined)
  • function(){…} is stored once in makeSortString, so the "big" translate_re and translate objects are stored once
  • When you call makeSortString('something') it call directly the inside function which calls only s.replace(…) : it is efficient
  • s.replace uses regexp (the special syntax of var translate_re= …. is in fact equivalent to var translate_re = new RegExp("[¹….Z]","g"); but the compilation of the regexp is done once for all, and the scan of the s String is done one for a call of the function (not for every character as it would be in a loop)
  • For each character found s.replace calls function(match) where parameter match contains the character found, and it call the corresponding translated character (translate[match])
  • Translate[match] is probably efficient too as the javascript translate object is probably implemented by javascript with a hashtab or something equivalent and allow the program to find the translated character almost directly and not for instance through a loop on a array of all characters to find the right one (which would be awfully unefficient).

In NPM exist a packege for this: latinize

I recommend the use due to easy deployment.

Here's a very simple solution without too much code using a very simple map of diacritics that includes some or all that map to ascii equivalents containing more than one character, ie Æ => AE, ffi => ffi, etc… Also included some very basic functional tests

 var diacriticsMap = { '\u00C0': 'A', // À => A '\u00C1': 'A', // Á => A '\u00C2': 'A', //  => A '\u00C3': 'A', // à => A '\u00C4': 'A', // Ä => A '\u00C5': 'A', // Å => A '\u00C6': 'AE', // Æ => AE '\u00C7': 'C', // Ç => C '\u00C8': 'E', // È => E '\u00C9': 'E', // É => E '\u00CA': 'E', // Ê => E '\u00CB': 'E', // Ë => E '\u00CC': 'I', // Ì => I '\u00CD': 'I', // Í => I '\u00CE': 'I', // Î => I '\u00CF': 'I', // Ï => I '\u0132': 'IJ', // IJ => IJ '\u00D0': 'D', // Ð => D '\u00D1': 'N', // Ñ => N '\u00D2': 'O', // Ò => O '\u00D3': 'O', // Ó => O '\u00D4': 'O', // Ô => O '\u00D5': 'O', // Õ => O '\u00D6': 'O', // Ö => O '\u00D8': 'O', // Ø => O '\u0152': 'OE', // Œ => OE '\u00DE': 'TH', // Þ => TH '\u00D9': 'U', // Ù => U '\u00DA': 'U', // Ú => U '\u00DB': 'U', // Û => U '\u00DC': 'U', // Ü => U '\u00DD': 'Y', // Ý => Y '\u0178': 'Y', // Ÿ => Y '\u00E0': 'a', // à => a '\u00E1': 'a', // á => a '\u00E2': 'a', // â => a '\u00E3': 'a', // ã => a '\u00E4': 'a', // ä => a '\u00E5': 'a', // å => a '\u00E6': 'ae', // æ => ae '\u00E7': 'c', // ç => c '\u00E8': 'e', // è => e '\u00E9': 'e', // é => e '\u00EA': 'e', // ê => e '\u00EB': 'e', // ë => e '\u00EC': 'i', // ì => i '\u00ED': 'i', // í => i '\u00EE': 'i', // î => i '\u00EF': 'i', // ï => i '\u0133': 'ij', // ij => ij '\u00F0': 'd', // ð => d '\u00F1': 'n', // ñ => n '\u00F2': 'o', // ò => o '\u00F3': 'o', // ó => o '\u00F4': 'o', // ô => o '\u00F5': 'o', // õ => o '\u00F6': 'o', // ö => o '\u00F8': 'o', // ø => o '\u0153': 'oe', // œ => oe '\u00DF': 'ss', // ß => ss '\u00FE': 'th', // þ => th '\u00F9': 'u', // ù => u '\u00FA': 'u', // ú => u '\u00FB': 'u', // û => u '\u00FC': 'u', // ü => u '\u00FD': 'y', // ý => y '\u00FF': 'y', // ÿ => y '\uFB00': 'ff', // ff => ff '\uFB01': 'fi', // fi => fi '\uFB02': 'fl', // fl => fl '\uFB03': 'ffi', // ffi => ffi '\uFB04': 'ffl', // ffl => ffl '\uFB05': 'ft', // ſt => ft '\uFB06': 'st' // st => st }; function replaceDiacritics(str) { var returnStr = ''; if(str) { for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) { if (diacriticsMap[str[i]]) { returnStr += diacriticsMap[str[i]]; } else { returnStr += str[i]; } } } return returnStr; } function testStripDiacritics(input, expected) { var coChar = replaceDiacritics(input); console.log('The character passed in was ' + input); console.log('The character that came out was ' + coChar); console.log('The character expected was' + expected); } testStripDiacritics('À','A'); testStripDiacritics('A','A'); testStripDiacritics('Æ','AE'); testStripDiacritics('AE','AE'); testStripDiacritics('ÇhÀrlËšYŸZŽ','ChArlEsYYZZ'); 

A simpler way to replace the diacriticals.

 function replaceDiacritics(str){ var diacritics = [ {char: 'A', base: /[\300-\306]/g}, {char: 'a', base: /[\340-\346]/g}, {char: 'E', base: /[\310-\313]/g}, {char: 'e', base: /[\350-\353]/g}, {char: 'I', base: /[\314-\317]/g}, {char: 'i', base: /[\354-\357]/g}, {char: 'O', base: /[\322-\330]/g}, {char: 'o', base: /[\362-\370]/g}, {char: 'U', base: /[\331-\334]/g}, {char: 'u', base: /[\371-\374]/g}, {char: 'N', base: /[\321]/g}, {char: 'n', base: /[\361]/g}, {char: 'C', base: /[\307]/g}, {char: 'c', base: /[\347]/g} ] diacritics.forEach(function(letter){ str = str.replace(letter.base, letter.char); }); return str; }; 

You can use the Deburr method from the Lodash library.

 let myStringWithAccent = 'Mon café est plein de caféïne'; let myStringWithoutAccent = deburr(myStringWithAccent); 

The result will be : "Mon cafe est plein de cafeine"

However, I tried this method with the following characters : "ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÒÓÔÕÕÖØòóôõöøÈÉÊËèéêëðÇçÐÌÍÎÏìíîïÙÚÛÜùúûüÑñŠšŸÿýŽž"

And the following characters were not change : "ŠšŸŽž"

But in most languages they are not used at all, so I think this method is one of the best.

Assuming you know what you're doing, I suspect IE6 is not interpreting the file's encoding correctly, and hence not recognising the non-ASCII characters in the file:

  • Make sure the file is saved as UTF-8 (say)
  • Use Fiddler or some other tool to check that the web server is sending the correct Content-Encoding HTTP header.

(It "smells" wrong though, I'd look into doing the sorting, say on the server using something that's locale-aware… but anyway…)

Pass a user defined function to the Array.sort() method, and in this user defined function use String.localeCompare()

 function myCompareFunction(a, b) { return a.localeCompare(b); } var values = ["pêches", "épinards", "tomates", "fraises"]; // WRONG: ["fraises", "pêches", "tomates", "épinards"] values.sort(); // **GOOD**: ["épinards", "fraises", "pêches", "tomates"] values.sort(myCompareFunction); 

You can create regex's in multiple ways. Using the new RegExp -constructor:

 var re = new RegExp("[az]", "ig") //(string pattern, string modifiers) 

Or using the regex literal notation:

 var re = /[az]/ig; // /pattern/modifiers 

You have mixed the two.

I provided this answer for a similar question. It is based on quick table-lookup replacement for selected chars (latin 1+2), one for one (not possible to change German ü to "ue"), but works well for basic "normalization" to 7-bit ASCII.

 TAB_00C0 = "AAAAAAACEEEEIIII" + "DNOOOOO*OUUUUYIs" + "aaaaaaaceeeeiiii" + "?nooooo/ouuuuy?y" + "AaAaAaCcCcCcCcDd" + "DdEeEeEeEeEeGgGg" + "GgGgHhHhIiIiIiIi" + "IiJjJjKkkLlLlLlL" + "lLlNnNnNnnNnOoOo" + "OoOoRrRrRrSsSsSs" + "SsTtTtTtUuUuUuUu" + "UuUuWwYyYZzZzZzF"; function stripDiacritics(source) { var result = source.split(''); for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) { var c = source.charCodeAt(i); if (c >= 0x00c0 && c <= 0x017f) { result[i] = String.fromCharCode(TAB_00C0.charCodeAt(c - 0x00c0)); } else if (c > 127) { result[i] = '?'; } } return result.join(''); } stripDiacritics("Šupa, čo? ľšťčžýæøåℌð") 

Any other characters are converted to ?, that is result is definitely 7-bit ASCII. No regex, no magic, simple char array work.

I used string.js's latinise() method, which lets you do it like this:

 var output = S(input).latinise().toString(); 

 function removeAccents(strAccents){ strAccents = strAccents.split(''); strAccentsOut = new Array(); strAccentsLen = strAccents.length; var accents = 'ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÒÓÔÕÕÖØòóôõöøÈÉÊËèéêëðÇçÐÌÍÎÏìíîïÙÚÛÜùúûüÑñŠšŸÿýŽž'; var accentsOut = ['A','A','A','A','A','A','a','a','a','a','a','a','O','O','O','O','O','O','O','o','o','o','o','o','o','E','E','E','E','e','e','e','e','e','C','c','D','I','I','I','I','i','i','i','i','U','U','U','U','u','u','u','u','N','n','S','s','Y','y','y','Z','z']; for (var y = 0; y < strAccentsLen; y++) { if (accents.indexOf(strAccents[y]) != -1) { strAccentsOut[y] = accentsOut[accents.indexOf(strAccents[y])]; } else strAccentsOut[y] = strAccents[y]; } strAccentsOut = strAccentsOut.join(''); return strAccentsOut; } 

I know it is "cheating" to do this on the server side, but last week I had a similar task in Javascript and I've introduced a simple java servlet and removed the accents in Java . It was really fast 🙂

I found all these a little clumsy and I'm not too expert on regular expressions, so here's a simpler version. It would be quite easy to translate it to your favourite server-side language, assuming that the string already in Unicode:

 // String containing replacement characters for stripping accents var stripstring = 'AAAAAAACEEEEIIII'+ 'DNOOOOO.OUUUUY..'+ 'aaaaaaaceeeeiiii'+ 'dnooooo.ouuuuy.y'+ 'AaAaAaCcCcCcCcDd'+ 'DdEeEeEeEeEeGgGg'+ 'GgGgHhHhIiIiIiIi'+ 'IiIiJjKkkLlLlLlL'+ 'lJlNnNnNnnNnOoOo'+ 'OoOoRrRrRrSsSsSs'+ 'SsTtTtTtUuUuUuUu'+ 'UuUuWwYyYZzZzZz.'; function stripaccents(str){ var answer=''; for(var i=0;i<str.length;i++){ var ch=str[i]; var chindex=ch.charCodeAt(0)-192; // Index of character code in the strip string if(chindex>=0 && chindex<stripstring.length){ // Character is within our table, so we can strip the accent... var outch=stripstring.charAt(chindex); // ...unless it was shown as a '.' if(outch!='.')ch=outch; } answer+=ch; } return answer; } 

If you are open to using a library, you can use String.js latinize: http://stringjs.com/#methods/latinise

 $scope.legal_name = $sanitize($scope.legal_name); console.log("Name before function...",$scope.legal_name); var str = ""; for(var i=0; i < $scope.legal_name.length; i++) { var charName = $scope.legal_name.charAt(i); if((charName == '&') && ($scope.legal_name.charAt(i + 1) == '#')){ var count = 0; var subString = ""; while(true) { if(($scope.legal_name.charCodeAt(i + 2 + count) > 47) && ($scope.legal_name.charCodeAt(i + 1 + count) < 58 )) { subString = subString + $scope.legal_name.charAt(i + 2 + count); count++; } else { if(subString.length > 0) { var value = parseInt(subString); str = str + String.fromCharCode(value); i = i + 1 + count; break; } } } } else { str = str + charName; } } $scope.legal_name = str; console.log("Name After function...",str); 

All the above isn't working with decomposed character as used on Mac OS. In order to remove diacritics in that case it is more simple :

 r = r.replace(new RegExp(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g),"") 

see comment from Olivier Miakinen on : https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fr.comp.lang.regexp/6IGJTbedGTM/G0sB2kAsR34J (posted in french)