Applescript Objective-C ASOC

This repository contains a collection of scripts I have been working on mostly around Music.app

1. appleMusic_striptDiacritics_ASOC.scpt

Using the following constants enable us to strip many diacritics from the Title / Artist in Music.app

NSStringTransformToLatin
NSStringTransformStripCombiningMarks
NSStringTransformStripDiacritics

Summary

Understanding NSStringTransformToLatin and Diacritic Stripping

The NSStringTransformToLatin transformation converts any non-Latin characters to their Latin equivalents. This includes:

Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Thaana, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar, Georgian, Hangul (Korean), Ethiopic, Cherokee, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Mongolian, Khmer, Bopomofo, Han (Chinese), Hiragana (Japanese), Katakana (Japanese), Yi, Tagalog, Hanunoo, Buhid, Tagbanwa, Braille

The NSStringTransformStripCombiningMarks transformation then removes any combining marks (like accents, tildes, etc.) that are still present in the Latinised text.

The NSStringTransformStripDiacritics transformation ensures that any remaining diacritics (special characters like accents) are removed.

This process standardises the text into a format that is simple, unaccented, and compatible with basic QWERTY keyboards, while keeping the original structure of the word intact.