remove_diacritics {piecemaker}

Remove Diacritical Marks on Characters

Description

Accent characters and other diacritical marks are often difficult to type, and thus can be missing from text. To normalize the various ways a user might spell a word that should have a diacritical mark, you can convert all such characters to their simpler equivalent character.

Usage

remove_diacritics(text)

Arguments

text

A character vector to clean.

Value

The character vector with simpler character representations.

Examples

# This text can appear differently between machines if we aren't careful, so
# we explicitly encode the desired characters.
sample_text <- "fa\u00e7ile r\u00e9sum\u00e9"
sample_text
remove_diacritics(sample_text)