Public/Remove-Diacritics.ps1
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function Remove-Diacritics { <# .SYNOPSIS Decompose characters to their base character equivilents and remove diacritics. .EXAMPLE PS >Remove-Diacritics 'àáâãäåÀÁÂÃÄÅfi⁵ẛ' Decompose characters to their base character equivilents and remove diacritics. .EXAMPLE PS >Remove-Diacritics 'àáâãäåÀÁÂÃÄÅfi⁵ẛ' -CompatibilityDecomposition Decompose composite characters to their base character equivilents and remove diacritics. .INPUTS System.String .LINK https://github.com/jasoth/Utility.PS #> [CmdletBinding()] param( # String value to transform. [Parameter(Mandatory, Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)] [AllowEmptyString()] [string[]] $InputStrings, # Use compatibility decomposition instead of canonical decomposition which further decomposes composite characters and many formatting distinctions are removed. [Parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)] [switch] $CompatibilityDecomposition ) process { [System.Text.NormalizationForm] $NormalizationForm = [System.Text.NormalizationForm]::FormD if ($CompatibilityDecomposition) { $NormalizationForm = [System.Text.NormalizationForm]::FormKD } foreach ($InputString in $InputStrings) { $NormalizedString = $InputString.Normalize($NormalizationForm) $OutputString = [System.Text.StringBuilder]::new() foreach ($Char in $NormalizedString.ToCharArray()) { if ([Globalization.CharUnicodeInfo]::GetUnicodeCategory($Char) -ne [Globalization.UnicodeCategory]::NonSpacingMark) { $null = $OutputString.Append($Char) } } Write-Output $OutputString.ToString() } } } |