Latinize.js
Simple library to convert accents (diacritics) from strings to latin characters.
Install
npm install latinize
Usage
ES module
import latinize from 'latinize';
latinize('ỆᶍǍᶆṔƚÉ áéíóúýčďěňřšťžů'); // => 'ExAmPlE aeiouycdenrstzu'node.js CommonJS
var latinize = require('latinize');
latinize('ỆᶍǍᶆṔƚÉ áéíóúýčďěňřšťžů');AMD
require(['latinize'], function(latinize){
latinize('ỆᶍǍᶆṔƚÉ áéíóúýčďěňřšťžů');
});browser
<script src="../latinize.js"></script>
<script>
document.write(latinize('ỆᶍǍᶆṔƚÉ áéíóúýčďěňřšťžů'));
</script>You can use the latinize.characters object to access the translation table or to change the mapping:
latinize.characters['Ω'] = 'O';
// modify the behavior for German umlauts
_.extend(latinize.characters,
{'Ä': 'Ae', 'Ö': 'Oe', 'Ü': 'Ue', 'ä': 'ae', 'ö': 'oe', 'ü': 'ue'});Details
Is is a lookup table taken from http://jsperf.com/latinize packaged for node and browser. Visit the link to see more approaches.