Swedish to not-so-Swedish through diacritics removal

Posted on Fri 06 April 2012 in Coding • Tagged with diacritics, Swedish, unicode

According to Merriam-Webster, a diacritic is:

a mark near or through an orthographic or phonetic character or combination of characters indicating a phonetic value different from that given the unmarked or otherwise marked element

Right! :-) In the Swedish language, there are three common letters with diacritics, namely å, ä and …


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