Remove diacritics from string in Java

Question

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ń ǹ ň ñ ṅ ņ ṇ ṋ ṉ ̈ ɲ ƞ ᶇ ɳ ȵ --> n or Remove diacritical marks from unicode chars

How to remove diacritics from strings?

For example transform all á->a, č->c, etc. that would work for all languages.

I'm doing full-text search, and would need to ignore any diacritics on searched text.

Thanks

Answer 1

Using API level 9+ you can use the Normalizer class, e.g.

String normalized = Normalizer.normalize("âbĉdêéè", Form.NFD)
    .replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");

(Keysers linked answer looks better, it cleans more crap)

This would return "abcdeee".