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Created December 26, 2014 13:06
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Remove accent from string using Clojure
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deaccent.clj
(defn deaccent [str]
"Remove accent from string"
;; http://www.matt-reid.co.uk/blog_post.php?id=69
(let [normalized (java.text.Normalizer/normalize str java.text.Normalizer$Form/NFD)]
(clojure.string/replace normalized #"\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+" "")))
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