ColdFusion: convert accented regional characters to plain ASCII

Question

I need to convert characters in French, Sweden and others language in their "normal" standard ASCII format.

I don't know how to explain, here's an example:

ç -> c
ò -> o

...

In bash Unix I would use iconv. How can I do in ColdFusion9 / Java?

In Java, one can do this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6328654/android-2-3-and-java-text-normalizer — James A Mohler, Nov 28 '12 at 00:48

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '12 at 13:51

I found this simple UDF at CFLib.org:

deAccent

<cfscript>
/**
 * Replaces accented characters with their non accented closest equivalents.
 * 
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Rachel Lehman (raelehman@gmail.com) 
 * @version 1, November 15, 2010 
 */
function deAccent(str){
    var newstr = "";
    var list1 = "á,é,í,ó,ú,ý,à,è,ì,ò,ù,â,ê,î,ô,û,ã,ñ,õ,ä,ë,ï,ö,ü,ÿ,À,È,Ì,Ò,Ù,Á,É,Í,Ó,Ú,Ý,Â,Ê,Î,Ô,Û,Ã,Ñ,Õ,Ä,Ë,Ï,Ö,Ü,x";
    var list2 = "a,e,i,o,y,u,a,e,i,o,u,a,e,i,o,u,a,n,o,a,e,i,o,u,y,A,E,I,O,U,A,E,I,O,U,Y,A,E,I,O,U,A,N,O,A,E,I,O,U,Y";

    newstr = ReplaceList(str,list1,list2);
    return newstr;
}
</cfscript>

Obviously you can add whatever characters you need. There's nothing native in ColdFusion to do this sort of conversion. You might be able to use something in the underlying Java (see [Sergii's comment](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9926507/coldfusion-convert-accented-regional-characters-to-plain-ascii/9926760#comment12671936_9926507)). — ale, Mar 29 '12 at 14:56

score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '13 at 11:53

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you can also use the charsetEncode function built in to CF.

encodedString = charsetEncode(stringToBeConverted, "utf-8");

answered Apr 03 '13 at 11:53

Tom

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I tried a simple example of the code: But it gives me error: Parameter 1 of the CharsetEncode function, which is now x, must be a valid binary object. Is there anything missing? – FlexyBoz Sep 26 '13 at 10:12

ColdFusion: convert accented regional characters to plain ASCII

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