Ansible remove accent

[Gabz Modz]

Hello :)

I have a playbook that generates the creation of an AD account, it works very well.

Example:
The account of Toto PIERRE with the email address toto....@labo.lab is created correctly.

The account of Médéric GOT with the email address médéric...@labo.lab the samacount is created with an accent "é", is there a method like CAPITALIZE or UPPER ect... which allows to remove the accent of the "é" by "e"?

Thanks in advance !

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[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 12 April 2022 at 17:59:09, Gabz Modz wrote:

> Hello :)
>
> I have a playbook that generates the creation of an AD account, it works
> very well.

... for a restricted input data set ...

> Example:
> The account of Toto PIERRE with the email address toto....@labo.lab is
> created correctly.
>
> The account of Médéric GOT with the email address médéric...@labo.lab the
> samacount is created with an accent "é", is there a method like CAPITALIZE
> or UPPER ect... which allows to remove the accent of the "é" by "e"?

I would suggest that it is not a good assumption that everybody's email
address is FirstName...@Domain.TLD

I think you should be supplying two separate items of data to ansible for this
process:

1. The person's name
2. The person's email address

For example, what would your current system try to do with:

a) Marcus du Sautoy
b) Ed O'Brien
c) Madonna
d) John Smith (Sales) and John Smith (Development)
e) Tony Leung Chiu-wai (whose surname is Leung)

Antony.

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