Is there an easy way to do String normalization in...

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[Patrick]

Is there an easy way to do String normalization in pure Kotlin (no JVM dependencies)? I am looking for something similar (or better identical) to the JavaScript String.prototype.normalize function: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize

[Hamza]

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/text/normalizerapi.html I found this for Java, not sure if this is what you need

[Patrick]

Thanks, that would work for JVM. I would need it to be in 100% Kotlin though, so I can use it in Kotlin/Native

[Hamza]

I'm gonna say it's gonna be pretty unlikely... Maybe you'll be lucky though. I am unsure

[Patrick]

I thought so. Didn't know there exists a solution in Java though. Maybe I can use that and automatically convert it to Kotlin. Just have to figure out how the license works in such cases.

[Hamza]

https://github.com/unicode-org/icu maybe take the icu4j implementation of normalization?

[Hamza]

https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/#/icu4j/com/ibm/icu/text/Normalizer.html

[Patrick]

This looks promising, thanks. Very permissive license

[Hamza]

👍

[Patrick]

So just for reference, I decided to go with an expect/actual approach. For JVM I use the Java std lib, for Windows its the WIN32 normalize function and for js I use str.normalize