normalize-for-search

About

Un-accents and un-umlauts characters in a string. Also preliminary converts the string to lower case. We use it for autocomplete: both for the matched strings -- on the server side, when indexing; and for the strings the user types into a text input in the browser.

Has nothing to do with Unicode Normalization, but rather expects the passed strings being already Unicode-normalized.

Installation

NPM (Node.js, Browserify, Webpack)

$ npm install --save normalize-for-search

then

var normalizeForSearch = require('normalize-for-search');

CouchDB

Just drop the src/normalize.js contents into your CouchDB design document -- for example, into {views: {lib: {normalize: 'JSON-ENCODED src/normalize.js CODE HERE'}}}, and then require it elsewhere:

var normalizeForSearch = require('views/lib/normalize');

Directly in the browser

Including src/normalize.js into a Web page will create a global normalizeForSearch function.

API

// String -> String

normalizeForSearch('Dät ist naïve und ÜBERCOOL, ё-маё!');
// 'daet ist naive und uebercool, е-мае!'

License: MIT

Copyright (c) 2016 Ivan Krechetov

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