Concrete Javascript Regex for Accented Characters (Diacritics)

Question

I\'ve looked on Stack Overflow (replacing characters.. eh, how JavaScript doesn\'t follow the Unicode standard concerning RegExp, etc.) and haven\'t really found a concrete

Answer 1

You can remove the diacritics from alphabets by using:

var str = "résumé"
str.normalize('NFD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, '') // returns resume

It will remove all the diacritical marks, and then perform your regex on it

Reference:

https://thread.engineering/2018-08-29-searching-and-sorting-text-with-diacritical-marks-in-javascript/