Julia Language String Normalization Diacritic-Insensitive String Comparison
Example
Sometimes, one wants strings like "resume" and "résumé" to compare equal. That is, graphemes that share a basic glyph, but possibly differ because of additions to those basic glyphs. Such comparison can be accomplished by stripping diacritical marks.
equals_ignore_mark(s, t) =
normalize_string(s, stripmark=true) == normalize_string(t, stripmark=true)
This allows the above example to work correctly. Additionally, it works well even with non-ASCII Unicode characters.
julia> equals_ignore_mark("resume", "résumé")
true
julia> equals_ignore_mark("αβγ", "ὰβ̂γ̆")
true
