---
name: "Text::Undiacritic"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtext-undiacritic-perl"
version: "0.07-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Text::Undiacritic"
---

# Text::Undiacritic(3pm)

remove diacritics from a string

## NAME

Text::Undiacritic - remove diacritics from a string

## VERSION

This document describes Text::Undiacritic 0.01

## SYNOPSIS

```
    use Text::Undiacritic qw(undiacritic);
    $ascii_string = undiacritic( $czech_string );
```

## DESCRIPTION

Changes characters with diacritics into their base characters.

Also changes into base character in cases where UNICODE does not provide a decomposition.

E.g. all characters '... WITH STROKE' like 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE' do not have a decomposition. In the latter case the result will be 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L'.

Removing diacritics is useful for matching text independent of spelling variants.

## SUBROUTINES/METHODS

### undiacritic

```
    $ascii_string = undiacritic( $characters );
```

Removes diacritics from `$characters` and returns a simplified character string.

The input string must be in character modus, i.e. UNICODE code points.

## DIAGNOSTICS

## CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

## DEPENDENCIES

- •

  version

- •

  charnames

- •

  Unicode::Normalize

## INCOMPATIBILITIES

## BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

There is no experience if this module gives useful results for scripts other than Latin.

## AUTHOR

Helmut Wollmersdorfer `"<WOLLMERS@cpan.org>"`

## LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Helmut Wollmersdorfer `"<WOLLMERS@cpan.org>"`. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.