Setting Turkish and English locale: translate Turkish characters to Latin equivalents

Question

I want to translate my Turkish strings to lowercase in both English and Turkish locale. I\'m doing this:

String myString=\"YAŞAT BAYRI\";
Locale trlocale= new Lo         


        

Answer 1

If you just want the string in ASCII, without accents, the following might do. First an accented character might be split in ASCII char and a combining diacritical mark (zero-width accent). Then only those accents may be removed by regular expression replace.

public static String withoutDiacritics(String s) {
    // Decompose any ş into s and combining-,.
    String s2 = Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
    return s2.replaceAll("(?s)\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}", "");
}