Collapsing to ASCII

[chrisjj]

I want to remove the diacritics from a few dozen characters e.g. á -> a, í -> i etc. in hundreds of files.

Is there any way I can do the set in one operation? I do not want to do one char at a time, every file being touched ones for every character replacement.

Thanks.

[Bob Hansen]

Use the pipe character "|" in a group as an OR delimiter.

Seaarch for: [á|->|a|í|->]
Replace with: NOTHING

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[chrisjj]

> Replace with: NOTHING

Thanks, but I need e.g.

>> á -> a, í -> i

[Bob Hansen]

Oops!...sorry about that. Thought you wanted to remove complete character.

I just reread and saw you only want to remove the diacritics, not the whole character. I guess you want to replace the character without the diacritic?

In that case, I think you will need to make multiple passes, one pass for each character group. All the "a"s, all the "e"s, etc. But you can still use the "|" to replace them in character groups which should reduce the number of passes.

If this is something to be done on a regular basis, make a macro to do the multiple passes in one sequence.

[ben_josephs]

Find what: ([áàáâãäå])|([èéêë])|([ìíîï])|([òóôõöø])|([ùúûü])|([ýÿ])
Replace with: ?1(a):?2(e):?3(i):?4(o):?5(u):?6(y)

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Search for conditional expression in WildEdit's help.

[chrisjj]

Excellent - thanks Ben.