For the lazy people (like me) who don’t want to decipher the whole thread, it seems like @massimo’s answer is the way to go:
arcanemachine
kip
ex_cldr Core Team
I’d be wary of using that approach since you’d have to be completely certain your text doesn’t contain non-word characters. To me that’s just going to come back and bite you at some time in the future.
iex> String.normalize("Näytẗkuv#$%^&*()[]aèüÀÁÂÃĀĂȦÄẢÅǍȀȂĄẠḀẦẤàáâä", :nfd) |> String.replace(~r/\W/u, "")
"NayttkuvaeuAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa"
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arcanemachine
kip
ex_cldr Core Team
Just re-read and I’ve no updated reason to change my answer. unicode_transforms is a general purpose transformation from Unicode to ASCII - that might be more than you need. And therefore slugify would be more straight forward if you’re generating slugs.
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arcanemachine
Just came back to to say thanks, and you were right! The simpler strategy was no match for “Rauðanes” (parsed incorrectly as “Rauanes”), but your library correctly normalized it to the commonly-accepted “Raudanes”. Much appreciated!
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