Transliterate Text to Plain ASCII

Converts a character vector to plain 7-bit ASCII, transliterating accented or non-Latin characters to their nearest ASCII equivalent (for example, an accented capital A becomes a plain "A"). Falls back to dropping any character that has no transliteration. This is the deterministic "fallback" used by ascii_fallback().

Usage

to_ascii(x)

Arguments

x

A character vector.

Value

A character vector containing only ASCII characters.

Examples

to_ascii("Prof. \u00c1ngela Zorro Medina")  # "Prof. Angela Zorro Medina"
#> [1] "Prof. Angela Zorro Medina"