andrewrk / andrewrk/node-diacritics
Use Unicode normalization?
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Description
Unicode defines normalized forms for characters and character classes.
It might work to normalize strings to NFKD and remove any characters of class Mn (Nonspacing_Mark) (see [table 12](http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/#GC_Values_Table))
It might be necessary to specially handle conversions like ß to ss
See also [python stack overflow answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1410365/2607762)
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