public class StringUtils {
static private Pattern marks = Pattern
.compile("[\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}\\p{IsLm}\\p{IsSk}]+");
- static private Pattern notAscii = Pattern.compile("[^\\p{ASCII}]+");
/**
* Fix the size of the given {@link String} either with space-padding or by
input = Normalizer.normalize(input, Form.NFKC);
if (!allowUnicode) {
- input = notAscii.matcher(input).replaceAll("");
+ StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+ for (int index = 0; index < input.length(); index++) {
+ char car = input.charAt(index);
+ // displayable chars in ASCII are in the range 32<->255,
+ // except DEL (127)
+ if (car >= 32 && car <= 255 && car != 127) {
+ builder.append(car);
+ }
+ }
+ input = builder.toString();
}
return input;