fold-to-ascii-js
A JavaScript port of the Apache Lucene ASCII Folding Filter that converts alphabetic, numeric, and symbolic Unicode characters which are not in the first 127 ASCII characters (the "Basic Latin" Unicode block) into their ASCII equivalents, if one exists.
Documentation
Installation
Package Manager
Npm: npm install fold-to-ascii
Recent versions require ES2015 support (i.e. node 6+). An ES5 version can be obtained by installing 2.0.2 (npm install fold-to-ascii@2.0.2).
Bower: bower install fold-to-ascii
Usage
var ASCIIFolder = require("./lib/ascii-folder");
// Folding with replacement of unmapped characters with the "_" character:
console.log(ASCIIFolder.fold("★Lorém ïpsum dölor.", "_"));
// Results in "_Lorem ipsum dolor."
// Folding without replacement of unmapped characters:
console.log(ASCIIFolder.fold("★Lorém ïpsum dölor.", null));
// Results in "★Lorem ipsum dolor."
// Folding with removal of unmapped characters
console.log(ASCIIFolder.fold("★Lorém ïpsum dölor."));
// Results in "Lorem ipsum dolor."If no replacement parameter is specified, unmapped characters will be replaced by the empty string.
Tests
All replacement tasks are covered by QUnit tests. Run npm test.
Sources
This is a straightforward port of the very extensive switch/case statement found in http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/tags/lucene_solr_4_5_1/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/ASCIIFoldingFilter.java