strip-combining-marks  

_strip-combining-marks_ removes Unicode combining marks from strings. It leaves unmatched combining marks (i.e. marks that appear at the start of the string, and don’t belong to a symbol) intact.

Installation

Via npm:

``bash
npm install strip-combining-marks
`

Via Bower:

`bash
bower install strip-combining-marks
`

Via Component:

`bash
component install mathiasbynens/strip-combining-marks
`

In a browser:

`html

`

In Node.js, io.js, Narwhal, and RingoJS:

`js
var stripCombiningMarks = require('strip-combining-marks');
`

In Rhino:

`js
load('strip-combining-marks.js');
`

Using an AMD loader like RequireJS:

`js
require(
{
'paths': {
'strip-combining-marks': 'path/to/strip-combining-marks'
}
},
['strip-combining-marks'],
function(stripCombiningMarks) {
console.log(stripCombiningMarks);
}
);
`

API

$3

A string representing the semantic version number.

$3

This function takes a string and returns the stripped version of that string, where any combining marks that were applied to other symbols have been removed.

#### Usage example

`js
stripCombiningMarks('Z͑ͫ̓ͪ̂ͫ̽͏̴̙̤̞͉͚̯̞̠͍A̴̵̜̰͔ͫ͗͢L̠ͨͧͩ͘G̴̻͈͍͔̹̑͗̎̅͛́Ǫ̵̹̻̝̳͂̌̌͘!͖̬̰̙̗̿̋ͥͥ̂ͣ̐́́͜͞');
'ZALGO!'
`

Support

strip-combining-marks has been tested in Chrome 27, Firefox 3, Safari 4, Opera 10, IE 6, Node.js v0.10.0, io.js v1.0.0, Narwhal 0.3.2, RingoJS 0.8, PhantomJS 1.9.1, and Rhino 1.7RC4.

Unit tests & code coverage

After cloning this repository, run npm install to install the dependencies needed for strip-combining-marks development and testing. You may want to install Istanbul _globally_ using npm install istanbul -g.

Once that’s done, you can run the unit tests in Node using npm test or node tests/tests.js. To run the tests in Rhino, Ringo, Narwhal, and web browsers as well, use grunt test.

To generate the code coverage report, use grunt cover`.

Author

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| Mathias Bynens |

License

strip-combining-marks is available under the MIT license.