I would like to be able to transliterate German umlaut characters
Ü ü ö ä Ä Ö
into their DIN 5007-2 alternatives
ä → ae
ö → oe
ü → ue
Ä → Ae
Ö → Oe
Ü → Ue
ß → ss (or SZ)
like in this case:
The most relevant use case I found was: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-analysis-icu/blob/master/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/analysis/SimpleIcuCollationTokenFilterTests.java
where on line 208 they do
String DIN5007_2_tailorings =
"& ae , a\u0308 & AE , A\u0308"+
"& oe , o\u0308 & OE , O\u0308"+
"& ue , u\u0308 & UE , u\u0308";
I would like to avoid creating complex Java code, like defining custom tailorings and all that's required. I want to keep the code as simple as possible, because I have to use this code inside a ColdFusion application.
I experimented a little with
var instance = Transliterator.getInstance("Latin-ASCII");
and
var instance = Transliterator.getInstance("any-NFD; [:nonspacing mark:] any-remove; any-NFC");
and their variants, they all result in:
writeDump(instance.transliterate('Häuser Bäume Höfe Gärten daß Ü ü ö ä Ä Ö ß '));
Hauser Baume Hofe Garten dass U u o a A O ss
If it's possible I would like to stick to using .getInstance() method. Question here is what is the ID string for the .getInstance() method that would result in transliterating umlauts into their DIN 5007-2 equivalents?
Updating on this as there is now a simple solution using "de-ASCII":
Transliterator transliterator = Transliterator.getInstance("de-ASCII");
String umlautReplaced = transliterator.transliterate(txt);