Efficiently replace all accented characters in a string?

Question

For a poor man\'s implementation of near-collation-correct sorting on the client side I need a JavaScript function that does efficient single character rep

Answer 1

A simple and easy way:

function remove-accents(p){
c='áàãâäéèêëíìîïóòõôöúùûüçÁÀÃÂÄÉÈÊËÍÌÎÏÓÒÕÖÔÚÙÛÜÇ';s='aaaaaeeeeiiiiooooouuuucAAAAAEEEEIIIIOOOOOUUUUC';n='';for(i=0;i=0){n+=s.substr(c.search(p.substr(i,1)),1);} else{n+=p.substr(i,1);}} return n;
}

So do this:

remove-accents("Thís ís ân accêntéd phráse");

Output:

"This is an accented phrase"