diacritics

What is diacritics?

The diacritics npm package is designed to help with the removal of diacritical marks (accents) from characters in strings. This can be particularly useful for normalizing text for search, comparison, or other text processing tasks.

What are diacritics's main functionalities?

Remove Diacritics

This feature allows you to remove diacritical marks from a string, making it easier to compare or search text without worrying about accents.

const diacritics = require('diacritics');
const input = 'Crème brûlée';
const output = diacritics.remove(input);
console.log(output); // 'Creme brulee'

Other packages similar to diacritics

diacritic

The diacritic package also focuses on removing diacritical marks from strings. It provides similar functionality to diacritics but may have different performance characteristics or additional features.

unorm

The unorm package provides Unicode normalization forms, which can be used to decompose characters with diacritical marks into their base characters and combining marks. While it offers more comprehensive Unicode normalization, it may require more steps to achieve the same result as diacritics.

remove-accents

The remove-accents package is another alternative for removing diacritical marks from strings. It offers similar functionality to diacritics and can be used interchangeably in most cases.

README

node-diacritics

remove diacritics from strings

useful when implementing some kind of search or filter functionality.

Installation

$ npm install diacritics

API

var removeDiacritics = require('diacritics').remove;
console.log(removeDiacritics("Iлｔèｒｎåｔïｏｎɑｌíƶａｔï߀ԉ"));
// prints "Internationalizati0n"