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

There is a draft report on character folding on the unicode website which has a lot of relevant material. See specifically Section 4.1. "Folding algorithm".

Here's a discussion and implementation of diacritic marker removal using Perl.

These existing SO questions are related:

• How to convert UTF-8 to US ASCII
• How to change diacritic characters to non-diacritic ones