Convert text to lowercase ASCII (remove accents)

Converts input text to lowercase and strips diacritics (accents) by applying a latin-ascii transliteration. Useful for normalization before matching or slug generation.

Usage

whapi_to_ascii_lower(x)

Arguments

x

Character vector or string. If NULL, an empty string is used.

Value

A character vector in lowercase ASCII without accents.

Examples

whapi_to_ascii_lower("Sao Paulo")
#> [1] "sao paulo"
#> "sao paulo"