flay v1.0.7
Flay
Flay the diacritics and accents off special characters with Flay. Say goodbye to character matching conflicts for good.
API
flay(string)
var flay = require('flay');
-- Example 1 --
console.log(flay('I’m searching my email for the word “résumé” but the search function doesn’t use Flay so it’s not appearing.'));Output will be:
I’m searching my email for the word “resume” but the search function doesn’t use Flay so it’s not appearing.
-- Example 2 --
console.log(flay('Don’t be naïve. Searching a word with a diaeresis won’t work without Flay.'));Output will be:
Don’t be naive. Searching a word with a diaeresis won’t work without Flay.
-- Example 3 --
console.log(flay('Piñatas should have candy not jalapeños!'));Output will be:
Pinatas should have candy not jalapenos!
-- Example 4 --
console.log(flay('I’ve been on my laptop searching “soufflé” \nI’ve either lost the recipe or I’m not running Flay'));Output will be:
I’ve been on my laptop searching “souffle” I’ve either lost the recipe or I’m not running Flay
-- Example 5 --
console.log(flay('Franjo Tuđman was born in Veliko Trgovišće and became Croatia’s first president.'));Output will be:
Franjo Tudman was born in Veliko Trgovisce and became Croatia’s first president.
Notes
Flay flays the diacritics and accents off your strings. Flatten all special characters with Flay and rest assured that you'll have no matching conflicts should a special character wind up in your text. Flay features attention to ISO 192-383 and a whole lot more. Currently supporting: Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Frisian, *English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Galician, German, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, *Hmong Thoob Teb, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Javanese, *Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Maori, North Frisian, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, *Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, *Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, *Somali, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, *Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Turkmen, Vietnamese, *Welsh, Western Frisian, Xhosa, Yoruba, *Zulu
*No regular diacritical marks
Installation
With npm do
$ npm install flayLicense
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