Java Tutorial/I18N/Normalizer

Use Normalizer to Remove Accents

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import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.text.Normalizer; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.JTextField; public class RemoveAccents extends JFrame {

 public RemoveAccents() {
   setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
   JPanel pnl = new JPanel();
   pnl.add(new JLabel("Enter text"));
   final JTextField txtText;
   txtText = new JTextField("to be removed");
   pnl.add(txtText);
   JButton btnRemove = new JButton("Remove");
   ActionListener al;
   al = new ActionListener() {
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
       String text = txtText.getText();
       text = Normalizer.normalize(text, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
       txtText.setText(text.replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]", ""));
     }
   };
   btnRemove.addActionListener(al);
   pnl.add(btnRemove);
   getContentPane().add(pnl);
   pack();
   setVisible(true);
 }
 public static void main(String[] args) {
   new RemoveAccents();
 }

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