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Useful snippets for text in JS

Remove accents and diacritics in a string

Section titled “Remove accents and diacritics in a string”
str.normalize("NFD").replace(/\p{Diacritic}/gu, "");

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Section titled “Related”

Tokenize natural languages

Section titled “Tokenize natural languages”
const segmenterFr = new Intl.Segmenter("fr", { granularity: "word" });
const string1 = "Que ma joie demeure";
const iterator1 = segmenterFr.segment(string1)[Symbol.iterator]();
console.log(iterator1.next().value.segment);

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Section titled “Related”

Country code to flag emoji

Section titled “Country code to flag emoji”
function getFlagEmoji(countryCode) {
  const codePoints = countryCode
    .toUpperCase()
    .split("")
    .map((char) => 127397 + char.charCodeAt());
  return String.fromCodePoint(...codePoints);
}

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Grapheme-to-Phoneme

Section titled “Grapheme-to-Phoneme”
Section titled “Related”