မဝ်ဂျူ:no-diacritics

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local export = {}

local acute_or_grave = "[" .. mw.ustring.char(0x301) .. mw.ustring.char(0x300) .. "]"

local accentedLetters = 'áàéèóò'

-- Decompose, remove acutes and graves, return first return value.
-- Beware: this decomposes Å to A + ◌̊.
function export.removeAccents(term)
	return term:find("[\128-\255]") and mw.ustring.gsub(mw.ustring.toNFD(term), acute_or_grave, "")
		or term
end

function export.hasAccents(term) 
	regex = '[' .. accentedLetters .. ']'
	return mw.ustring.match(term, regex) ~= nil
end

return export