How to Convert Special Characters to Normal Characters

How to convert special characters to normal characters?

try this .. works for me.

iconv('utf-8', 'ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);

Convert special characters to normal

See: Does .NET transliteration library exists?

UnidecodeSharpFork

Usage:

var result = "Helloæ".Unidecode();
Console.WriteLine(result) // Prints Helloae

Is there a way to convert special characters to normal characters in Swift?

Use stringByFoldingWithOptions and pass .DiacriticInsensitiveSearch

let s = "éáüîāṁṇār̥"
let r = s.stringByFoldingWithOptions(.DiacriticInsensitiveSearch, locale: nil)
print(r) // prints eauiamnar

Replace special characters in a string in Python

str.replace is the wrong function for what you want to do (apart from it being used incorrectly). You want to replace any character of a set with a space, not the whole set with a single space (the latter is what replace does). You can use translate like this:

removeSpecialChars = z.translate ({ord(c): " " for c in "!@#$%^&*()[]{};:,./<>?\|`~-=_+"})

This creates a mapping which maps every character in your list of special characters to a space, then calls translate() on the string, replacing every single character in the set of special characters with a space.

PHP convert non standard marks and special characters to normal

Use normalization form C to normalize combining marks like accents. Form KC additionally converts full-width characters like U+FF01 to standard versions.

Example:

<?php
$string = "É É é à Ç ！";
print "before: $string\n";
print "hex: " . unpack("H*", $string)[1] . "\n";
$string = Normalizer::normalize($string, Normalizer::FORM_KC);
print "after: $string\n";
print "hex: " . unpack("H*", $string)[1] . "\n";

Output:

before: É É é à Ç ！
hex: c3892045cc812065cc812061cc802043cca720efbc81
after: É É é à Ç !
hex: c38920c38920c3a920c3a020c3872021

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