Class or library for alphabetic letters

[arvin]

Hi Guys (and girls?)!

I am looking for a class or library to do an easier mapping between english letters and non-english letters. It's maybe hard to understand with words (my bad english), so i can show you my method.

The code:

public String replaceForeign() {
		if (language.equalsIgnoreCase("tr"))
			for (int i = 0; i < name.length(); i++)
				switch (name.charAt(i)) {
				case 'ç':
					name.setCharAt(i, 'c');
					break;
				case 'Ç':
					name.setCharAt(i, 'C');
					break;
				case 'ğ':
					name.setCharAt(i, 'g');
					break;
				case 'Ğ':
					name.setCharAt(i, 'G');
					break;

So in this case i want to convert the turkish letters to latin(english) letters. The problem is, it will take too much time to do this for all languages (excluding non-latin alphabets like arabic, hindi, chinese etc.), so is there any faster way to write this code, with help of a third-party library or something?

Thanks in advance.

[KevinWorkman]

The String class has methods for automatically replacing any pattern with another substring. You could use that.

[JosAH]

Perhaps the Normalizer class can be of help (read the API documentation for that class).

kind regards,

Jos

[Tolls]

Found this stack overflow thread, specifically the Normalizer part.
Essentially you use the normaliser to break down the character into its "parts" and grab the base (ascii) value.

[arvin]

Thanks appreciate your help. The normalizer class made my work a lot easier.

Thanks guys!