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Reference · stzString

DiacriticsRemoved()

Dotless / DotsRemoved: return the content with dots stripped from "i" and "j" (Unicode "Latin Letter Dotless I" / "Dotless J"). Lossy on purpose -- meant for the typographic effect, not for round-trippable encoding. Port from archive line 93405. DiacriticsRemoved: strip combining diacritic codepoints from the content. Uses NFD normalisation to decompose accented letters into base + combining marks, then drops any codepoint in the combining ranges: U+0300-U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks (Latin etc.) U+0610-U+061A Arabic U+064B-U+065F Arabic Tashkil (Fatha, Damma, ...) U+06D6-U+06ED Arabic supplementals U+0951-U+0954 Vedic / Devanagari

also written: WithoutDiacritics

Basic examples (1)

Softanza
# a French sentence loses its accents
? StzStringQ("C'était un énoncé accentuée, à vrai-dire, extrâ!").DiacriticsRemoved()
# an Arabic greeting loses its harakat
? StzStringQ("السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ").DiacriticsRemoved()
Output
C'etait un enonce accentuee, a vrai-dire, extra!
السلام عليكم

run on 2026-10-02 04:24 inside the library at commit 0e72e2e2c; taken from from_ttext_now_lets_see_how_diacritics_can_be_removed_from_a_.ring(opens in a new tab)

The extensions of this method

Each extension, and whether it exists for this method; an extension that exists combines with the others (FindSTCS).

Extension
Exists
What it adds · The names
Q
no
does what the method does, then returns the object, so the call can be chained
QQ
no
chains on the next, more specific type of object (the Q ladder)
QQQ
no
chains on the most specific type of object (the Q ladder)
QRT
no
returns the result as an object of the requested type
CS
no
takes a case-sensitivity flag
ST
no
takes the position to start from (StartingAt)
IB
no
takes bounds that are included (IncludingBounds)
XT
no
the extended form: more parameters than the base method
XTT
no
yet another extension: a further extended form, after XT
Z
no
includes the position in what it returns
ZZ
no
returns positions as sections, [start, end]
W
no
selects by a condition
WF
no
selects by a condition, with the expressive keywords (@NextItem, @PreviousItem...)
D
no
takes a direction, forward or backward (Directional)
F
no
takes a function (the condition or the update is given as a function); the forms document also uses F for the future form, which defers the action
Many
no
works on a collection of items instead of one (the plural form)
Except
no
takes exceptions, what to leave out (the exceptional form)
U
no
returns the result without duplication

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See also