Re: How to convert 'ö' to 'oe' or 'o' (or other similar things) in a string?

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 25.09.16 um 01:08 schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
> Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>
>> Am 17.09.16 um 23:19 schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
>>> Peng Yu wrote:
>>>> Hi, I want to convert strings in which the characters with accents
>>>> should be converted to the ones without accents.
>>> […]
>>>> […]
>>>> ./main.py Förstemann
>>>
>>> AFAIK, “ä”, “ö”, and “ü” are not accented characters in any natural
>>> language, but characters of their own (umlauts).
>>>
>>> In particular, I know for certain that they are not accented in Germanic
>>> languages.  Swedish has been mentioned; I can add my native language,
>>> German, to that list.
>>
>> In German, they are letters,
>
> If you read more carefully, my point was: In German, umlauts are not
> "accented characters".
>
>> but they collate as either ae, oe, ue
>> (rarely) or a, o, u (modern style).
>
> Correct, but irrelevant.  The OP did not say anything about sorting.
>
> Fallacy: Red herring.
>

Fallacy: Thinking that I disagree with you.

	Christian