Transliterate Removal of Symbols

Question

I am trying to transliterate ®, ©, ', and ™ into blank characters meaning completely removing them when they are slugified.

The following is what I tried to do:

var tr = require('transliteration');
var slugify = require('transliteration').slugify;

// replacement attempt
tr("0xAE, 0xFEFF"); // ®
tr("0xA9, 0xFEFF"); // ©
tr("0x2122, 0xFEFF"); // ™

slugify(name, { lowercase: true })

For example, when I use slugify on a name like "ABC®: 123", it transliterates to:

abc-r-123

However, I want the resulting name to be like:

abc-123

AFAIK, `0x...` sequences don't have any special meaning in JavaScript strings. In any case, the library appears to transliterate those characters just fine. I you don't want then transliterated you should remove them before passing them to slugify. — Álvaro González, Mar 05 '16 at 08:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '16 at 08:33

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See following steps, how I did it:

console.log(tr("ABC ©")); //Output: ABC (c)

var test1 = "ABC®: 123©" //test input to see results

var regex = /\((r)\)|\((c)\)/g; //regex to remove ® and ©, update on desire

console.log(tr(test1).replace(regex,'')); //Output: ABC: 123

//now sluggify
console.log(slugify(test1, { lowercase: true, separator: '-' })); //Output: abc-123

Further working can be seen on Github Here

answered Mar 05 '16 at 08:33

Zeeshan Hassan Memon

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works like a charm the way you did it. I added a few others i didnt want slugified: `tr(name).replace(/\((r)\)|\((c)\)|\((tm)\)|®|©|™|'|ʼ/g, '');` – mayvn Mar 05 '16 at 20:19
Wouldn't the code be easier to understand if you just removed actual characters from source string **before** transliteration? – Álvaro González Mar 07 '16 at 10:17
what part of above code you find uneasy and where you think chars are not being removed? – Zeeshan Hassan Memon Mar 07 '16 at 10:29

Transliterate Removal of Symbols

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