{"id":723,"date":"2006-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/03\/04\/661\/"},"modified":"2006-03-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T23:00:00","slug":"661","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/03\/04\/661\/","title":{"rendered":"US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Fuecks at SitePoint &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/blogs\/2006\/03\/03\/us-ascii-transliterations-of-unicode-text\/\" title=\"SitePoint Blogs \u00bb US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text\">US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;[I] ported Text::Unidecode to PHP. [&#8230;] What I\u2019ve done is easy, compared to the amazing job Sean M. Burke has done with Text::Unidecode. You really need to read the docs to understand what it does and it\u2019s limitations but, in short, it keeps a \u201cdatabase\u201d of unicode characters and corresponding sensible US-ASCII equivalents. For example, a simple transformation would be \u201cZ\u00fcrich\u201d to \u201cZuerich\u201d, \u201cue\u201d being a common replacement for \u201c\u00fc\u201d in Germanic languages.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Fuecks at SitePoint &#8211; US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text: &#8222;[I] ported Text::Unidecode to PHP. [&#8230;] What I\u2019ve done is easy, compared to the amazing job Sean M. Burke has done with Text::Unidecode. You really need to read the docs to understand what it does and it\u2019s limitations but, in short, it keeps a \u201cdatabase\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}