Hello,
I was wondering if there was a function which takes as input a string and returns the same string stripped of any accents (ex: été -> ete). If not, what would be the most efficient way of achieving this result within an expression rule?
Thank you
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a!localVariables( local!splitted_text: a!forEach( items: enumerate(len(ri!text)), expression: charat(ri!text, fv!index) ), local!splCharsReplacedArray_txt: a!forEach( items: local!splitted_text, expression: if( isnull(clean(fv!item)), displayvalue( fv!item, {"à","á","â","ã","ä","ç","è","é","ê","ë","ì","í","î","ï","ñ","ò","ó","ô","õ","ö","š","ù","ú","û","ü","ý","ÿ","ž","À","Á","Â","Ã","Ä","Ç","È","É","Ê","Ë","Ì","Í","Î","Ï","Ñ","Ò","Ó","Ô","Õ","Ö","Š","Ú","Û","Ü","Ù","Ý","Ÿ","Ž"}, {"a","a","a","a","a","c","e","e","e","e","i","i","i","i","n","0","o","o","o","o","s","u","u","u","u","y","y","z","A","A","A","A","A","C","E","E","E","E","I","I","I","I","N","O","O","O","O","O","S","U","U","U","U","Y","Y","Z"}, ""), fv!item ) ), joinarray(local!splCharsReplacedArray_txt, "") )
I have my doubts that there is a easy or simple solution to this. E.g. the German "ü" needs to be replaced by "ue" and I think that other languages have something similar in place.
BTW, the most simple way to turn a text into a list of characters is char(code(ri!text))