Removing accents and diacritics from a word

[Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode]

On 7/17/2019 11:37 AM, Tex wrote:
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> Asmus, are you including the case where an accented character maps to 
> two unaccented characters?
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> e.g. Å to AA or Ä to AE
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If that's covered by the same term; but it's not simple 
"typewriter/telegraph" fallback.


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> *From:*Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces at unicode.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 17, 2019 11:07 AM
> *To:* Norbert Lindenberg
> *Cc:* Unicode Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: Removing accents and diacritics from a word
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> On 7/17/2019 11:02 AM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote:
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>     “Misspelling”?
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> Not helpful. Anybody have a serious suggestion?
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> A./
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>         On Jul 17, 2019, at 10:37, Asmus Freytag via Unicode<unicode at unicode.org>  <mailto:unicode at unicode.org>  wrote:
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>         A question has come up in another context:
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>         Is there any linguistic term for describing the process of removing accents and diacritics from a word to create its “base form”, e.g. São Tomé to Sao Tome?
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>         The linguistic term "string normalization" appears not that preferable in a computing context.
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>         Any ideas?
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>         A./
>

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