Remove diacritical marks (ń ǹ ň ñ ṅ ņ ṇ ṋ ṉ ̈ ɲ ƞ ᶇ ɳ ȵ) from Unicode chars

Question

I am looking at an algorithm that can map between characters with diacritics (tilde, circumflex, caret, umlaut, caron) and their \"simple\" character.

For example:

Answer 1

You could use the Normalizer class from java.text:

System.out.println(new String(Normalizer.normalize("ń ǹ ň ñ ṅ ņ ṇ ṋ", Normalizer.Form.NFKD).getBytes("ascii"), "ascii"));

But there is still some work to do, since Java makes strange things with unconvertable Unicode characters (it does not ignore them, and it does not throw an exception). But I think you could use that as an starting point.