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ChrisBudgen
ChrisBudgen
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December 13, 2021
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Swap special characters for base versions

  • December 13, 2021
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Hi,

I'm looking for a way in Fusion to swap the special characters in a string (e.g. Cédric Genzić) for the base versions (= Cedric Genzic). Any ideas?

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AndyHess
Adobe Employee
AndyHessAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
December 15, 2021

Hmm. very interesting. I don't run into this often but believe the ascii() function will do the trick.

Example: {{ascii("Cédric Genzić"; true)}}

returns: Cedric Genzic

Hope this helps!

    ChrisBudgen
    ChrisBudgenAuthor
    Level 5
    December 15, 2021

    @Andy Hess‚ thanks for the tip!

    I'll run all our special names through it to see if there are any exceptions. One that I did already find is Łukasz

    AndyHess
    Adobe Employee
    AndyHessAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    December 15, 2021

    The default action is to simply strip the character that it can not map. and you will certainly find exceptions. The code page list is pretty exhaustive and the ascii conversion module must have a unicode char>ascii conversion built in. Looks like this Polish/Cyrillic character is not in the mapping. You can do some replace functions to hard map the exceptions ahead of the ascii() module to move them over but that may not be optimal as it can be a large replace list.

    Why not carry over the actual unicode text?

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