Java - How do I automatically generate a umlaut table?

How do I automatically generate a umlaut table?… here is a solution to the problem.

How do I automatically generate a umlaut table?

I want vowel tables diacritics, but don’t want to search symbol tables manually.

Is it possible to generate this table from a list of cross-vowels and a list of diacritics using some of the following languages: Java, PHP, Wolfram Mathematica, .NET Language and so on?

I need to use characters (unicode) as output.

Java solutions

I found a special Unicode feature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_normalization

Java supports it since 1.6 http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/Normalizer.html

So, the sample code is:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String vowels = "aeiou";
    char[] diacritics = {'\u0304', '\u0301', '\u0300', '\u030C'};
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

for(int v=0; v<vowels.length(); ++v) {
        for(int d=0; d<diacritics.length; ++d) {
            sb.append(vowels.charAt(v));
            sb.append(diacritics[d]);

sb.append(' ');
        }
        sb.append(vowels.charAt(v));
        sb.append('\n');
    }

String ans = Normalizer.normalize(sb.toString(), Normalizer.Form.NFC);

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, ans);
}

i.e. we just put the combined diacritic after the vowel letter and then apply normalization to the string.

Solution

To be honest, I haven’t fully understood what Szabolcs’ code is doing, but in this particular case, this seems to produce the same result with slightly less code in Mathematica

data = Import["http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt", "Lines"];

codes = Cases[data, 
 b_String /; StringMatchQ[
  b, ___ ~~ "LATIN " ~~ "CAPITAL" | " SMALL" ~~ " LETTER " ~~ 
   "A" | "E" | "I" | "O" | "U" ~~ " WITH " ~~ ___] :> 
    FromDigits[StringTake[b, 4], 16], Infinity];

FromCharacterCode[codes]

Produces

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Java – How do I automatically generate a umlaut table?

How do I automatically generate a umlaut table?

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