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Strip or Map Unicode to ASCII
This flow converts Unicode characters to ASCII characters. Some Unicode characters cannot be converted to ASCII by other Unicode normalization algorithm, such as strip diacritics, split ligatures, symbol mapping, or Unicode mapping. These characters are either:
When the -m flag is specified, the detail mutate operations for each characters of the input string are added after the standard set of lvg output fields. There are three basic mutate operations in this flow as shown in following table:
Operations | Descriptions | Example |
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NO | No operation | A -> A |
MP | Table lookup mapping | ɑ -> alpha |
SP | Stripped | ™ -> |
None.
shell> lvg -f:q8 -m ɑ-Best™ ɑ-Best™|alpha-Best|2047|16777215|q8|1|MP|NO|NO|NO|NO|NO|SP|More examples