Foreign Language Characte Substitution

[ediman4902]

Is there a way in AWK to convert "ä" (umla-A) to "a" and for the rest of the European character set that use the "unla" like "O" and "U"?

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Not very elegant, but you could try something like this:

cat - <<eofx >MyFile.txt
1-àèìòù-
2-áéíóú-
3-àèìòù-
4-âêîôû-
5-ãëïõü-
6-äåæö
eofx
echo "+-- MyFile.txt --------------------"
cat MyFile.txt
echo "+------------------------------"
awk '
BEGIN {
c["a"]="àáâãäåæ";
c["e"]="èéêë";
c["i"]="ìíîï";
c["o"]="òóôõö";
c["u"]="ùúûü";}
{r=$0; 
 for (x in c) {
   for (i=1;i<=length(c[x]);i++) {
     gsub(substr(c[x],i,1),x,r)}
 } print "+- %s"$0" to "r;
}' MyFile.txt

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