Easy way to remove accents from a Unicode string? [duplicate]

Question

I want to change this sentence :

Et ça sera sa moitié.

To :

Et ca sera sa moitie.

Is there an easy way to do this in Java, like I would do in Objective-C ?

NSString *str = @"Et ça sera sa moitié."; NSData *data = [str dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES]; NSString *newStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; 

Answer 1

Finally, I've solved it by using the Normalizer class.

import java.text.Normalizer;  public static String stripAccents(String s)  {     s = Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFD);     s = s.replaceAll("[\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}]", "");     return s; } 

Answer 2

Maybe the easiest and safest way is using StringUtils from Apache Commons Lang

StringUtils.stripAccents(String input) 

Removes diacritics (~= accents) from a string. The case will not be altered. For instance, 'à' will be replaced by 'a'. Note that ligatures will be left as is.

StringUtils.stripAccents()