Some of the Umlaut characters are getting skipped from first and last name when generating unique attribute using them

[nileshjain77 (Nilesh Jain)]

We are facing issue while generating unique value using firstname and lastname which has umlaut characters, however for some of the umlaut characters IIQ is skipping some of them (like - Ę)when replacing umlaut with corresponding English letter.

Please let us know if anyone faced this and resolved.

[enistriminsait (Emanuele Nistri)]

Hi @nileshjain77,

try to convert the string with utf-8 standard, with something like this:

String s = "ä ö ü";
byte[] bytes = s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
String converted = new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
System.out.println(converted);

[abartkowski (Adam Bartkowski)]

Hi,

you could implement kind of StringUtil class for your IIQ.
Like here:

> public class StringUtil {
> public static String stringNormalizer(String str, Identity identity) {
>         try {
>             ...
>             str = replaceHungarianSpecialsCustom(str, identity);
>             str = replaceGermanSpecials(str);
>           //any other country specific replacements
>             ...
>             return str;
>         } catch (Exception e) {
>             log.debug("Error message: ", e);
>             return "";
>         }
>     }
> 
> static String replaceGermanSpecials(String str) {
>         if (StringUtil.isNullOrEmpty(str)) {
>             return "";
>         }
>         str = str.replace("\u00c4", "Ae");
>         str = str.replace("\u00e4", "ae");
>         str = str.replace("\u00d6", "Oe");
>         str = str.replace("\u00f6", "oe");
>         str = str.replace("\u00dc", "Ue");
>         str = str.replace("\u00fc", "ue");
>         str = str.replace("\u00df", "ss");
>         return str;
>     }
> 
>  static String replaceHungarianSpecials(String str) {
>         if (StringUtil.isNullOrEmpty(str)) {
>             return "";
>         }
>         str = str.replace("\u00e1", "a");
>         str = str.replace("\u00e9", "e");
>         str = str.replace("\u00ed", "i");
>         str = str.replace("\u00f3", "o");
>         str = str.replace("\u0151", "o");
>         str = str.replace("\u00fa", "u");
>         str = str.replace("\u0171", "u");
>         str = str.replace("\u00c1", "A");
>         ...
>         return str;
>     }
> 
> }

[nileshjain77 (Nilesh Jain)]

Hello @enistriminsait - Thaks, I’ll try this solution and keep you posted.

[nileshjain77 (Nilesh Jain)]

Hello - I will try this solution, Thanks.