Unicode normalization in R

Unicode normalization functions are available in the stringi package on CRAN.

library(stringi)

nfd  = stri_trans_nfd(str)
nfc  = stri_trans_nfc(str)
nfkd = stri_trans_nfkc(str)
nfkc = stri_trans_nfkd(str)

• Requires: stringi 0.2-2
• Docs: http://docs.rexamine.com/R-man/stringi/stri_trans_nf.html