Remove accents and special characters from a name for the purpose of user ids and email addresses.

[Brian Workman]

This is a very straight-forward script to take a person's name, strip out accents and special characters and spaces for the purpose of using in a user id or an email address.

// Caveat : I am 💯% mixing names and genders around in my example
// just to get names with accents, etc.
//
// This is just for demonstration and is not an attempt at representing
// real name combinations

var firstname = "Frédéric-Noël" ;
var lastname = "Jokūbas_KŠthe Smith"

var result = {
    first: normalise( firstname ),
    last : normalise( lastname )
} ;

console.info(result) ;

function normalise (input) {
    return input
        .toString()                         // Just in case, you know what I mean
        .normalize('NFD')                   // Canonical Decomposition
        .replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "")    // Remove diacritics
        .replace(/\s/g,"")                  // Strip spaces
        .replace(/[\W_]+/g,"")              // Strip all non-word characters and underlines
        ;
}

// [object Object] {
//     first: "FredericNoel",
//     last: "JokubasKStheSmith"
//   }

[Charlotte Pakes]

Thanks very much, this was exactly what I needed.

[Community Alums]

Hi 

I have solved above  problem like below code 

switch (field) {

                case "name":

                case "managed_by":

                 {

                    var keyCapry = capry_util.serviceNowToCapryFieldTransform(key);

                    var nonEngV = value.toString(); // Just in case, you know what I mean

                    var nonEngV1 = nonEngV.normalize('NFD'); // Canonical Decomposition

                    var ss = nonEngV1.replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, ""); // Remove diacritics

                    jsonObj[keyCapry] = ss;

                    break;

                }

working as expected but if we we can update them as it follows?

ä ---> ae
ë ---> e
ï ---> i
ö ---> oe
ü ---> ue
ÿ ---> y
ß --> ss

 please help me how to translation of the umlauts like above.

Thanks & Regards,

Bandi

[Ark4]

Hi,

This script only works on background & not on the script includes.

Did you find a way around this?

[Brian Workman]

Do you mean mine, or "Community Alums"'s? Because mine definitely works in a script include. There is legit nothing special about. It is as vanilla JS as it comes.

[Brian Workman]

"Community Alum"'s question has to do with transliteration. And I have done some research and have found the answer.

You can include speakingurl as a script include from its CDN, either the full one or the minified one. Perform the transliteration before you perform the normalisation.

[Ark4]

My Bad, it seems to be working. Need to pass the inputs as String.