B4J Question Reliable convert non-ASCII charachters to their respective ASCII counterparts?

[MathiasM]

Hello

I want to turn names into Google valid emails. Problem is that some people have non-ascii names.
For example: Zoé or Anaïs

I hoped to convert these to Zoe and Anais for generating a Google Email adress.
I know I can do a string replace, but I think I will forget some special letters and things will go wrong.
I also tried to encode them by doing a bytestoString conversion with ASCII as the encoding, but that gives me Zo? and Ana?s, which is not better.

Does anyone know a reliable way to convert special characters to their respective ascii counterparts?

Thanks!

 

[agraham]

The only way is a lookup way. This link is for Python code but you may be able to cut and paste the lookup tables.
Latin1 to ASCII -- The UNICODE Hammer « Python recipes « ActiveState Code
or here
latin-1 to ascii | ansaurus

 

[Erel]

You can remove accents with https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/remove-accents-from-string.40429/#content

There are of course many other non-ascii code points.