Add stripAccents to KStringHandler

[Torsten Rahn]

On Thursday 18 October 2007 12:34:32 Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> Yes, it is really easy to use, but nobody knows about this. People somehow
> tend to not read unicode specifications and it took me a couple of hours to
> find out about it because I was not satisfied with creating char mappings.

Thanks. I looked through the docs, even asked a Troll and didn't find a 
solution. 
The obvious solution would be however to fix this glaring "bug" in the Qt doc 
which hides a nice feature through doc-obfuscation.   

However I agree with Thiago that a sophisticated deaccent would indeed take 
into account more than stripping off any dots, dashes or carets. I'm not sure 
whether it's really app-specific though.

So instead of rushing it into KDE 4.0 IMHO we should better think it through 
and come up with a nice solution for KDE 4.1.

Torsten

> Of now four programs benefiting from this (add Marble as it seems) no dev
> knew about it. And I wonder how many other apps could use this for search
> fields and maybe in other places.
>
> Would you feel more comfortable with "stripDiacritics" as name?
>
> Greetings,
> Frederik



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