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I'm currently scanning a bunch of handwritten documents and converting them to .txt files. Since I have a terrible handwriting the .jpg->.txt converter converts some of my umlauts to the "normal" letter encased by '

Task

Write a program or a function that:

  • Is given a string
    • you can choose any I/O codepage as long as
      • it supports the characters AEIOUaeiouÄËÏÖÜäëïöü'.
      • the Input and Output codepages are the same.
    • the input will (beside spaces) only contain printable characters from your codepage.
      • There will only be one solution, thus things like 'a'e' won't appear
  • Converts all characters in the following set AEIOUaeiou to ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü
    • If, and only if, they are surrounded by ' characters:
      • Example: 'a''e' -> äë
    • If the from string is a single letter.
      • for example 'AE' does not change at all, outputting as-is.
    • If the from character is not a character out of AEIOUaeiou that character won't change.

Note: The from character / from string is the one between '.

Testcases

Input
Output
<empty line>

'A'sthetik
Ästhetik

Meinung ist wichtig!
Meinung ist wichtig!

Ich sagte: "Er sagte: 'Ich habe Hunger'"
Ich sagte: "Er sagte: 'Ich habe Hunger'"

Ich sagte: "Er sagte: ''A'sthetik'"
Ich sagte: "Er sagte: 'Ästhetik'"

Hämisch rieb er sich die H'a'nde
Hämisch rieb er sich die Hände

H'a''a'slich isn't a German word
Hääslich isn't a German word

since it's really called h'a'sslich
since it's really called hässlich
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    \$\begingroup\$ The active ingredient in all of your testcases are either 'A' or 'a'... not what I consider good testcases. \$\endgroup\$
    – Leaky Nun
    May 2, 2017 at 17:53
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    \$\begingroup\$ Can you add a example with 'w' (as w is not one of AEIOUaeiou)? \$\endgroup\$
    – jimmy23013
    May 2, 2017 at 18:07
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    \$\begingroup\$ Combining diacriticals had unknown status, then were allowed, then were disallowed. This invalidated at least 4 answers. Boo! Hiss! I've changed my upvote to a downvote :( \$\endgroup\$ May 2, 2017 at 18:36
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    \$\begingroup\$ @DigitalTrauma I'm very sorry for that. \$\endgroup\$ May 2, 2017 at 18:45
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    \$\begingroup\$ Add testcase: 'q'e'd' \$\endgroup\$ May 3, 2017 at 5:57

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JavaScript (ES6), 81 70 68 bytes

s=>s.replace(/'[aeiou]'/gi,c=>"ï   ÖÄöä ËÜëüÏ "[c.charCodeAt(1)%15])

Try It

f=
s=>s.replace(/'[aeiou]'/gi,c=>"ï   ÖÄöä ËÜëüÏ "[c.charCodeAt(1)%15])
i.addEventListener("input",_=>o.innerText=f(i.value))
console.log(f("'A'sthetik")) // Ästhetik
console.log(f("Meinung ist wichtig!")) // Meinung ist wichtig!
console.log(f(`Ich sagte: "Er sagte: 'Ich habe Hunger'"`)) // Ich sagte: "Er sagte: 'Ich habe Hunger'"
console.log(f(`Ich sagte: "Er sagte: ''A'sthetik'"`)) // Ich sagte: "Er sagte: 'Ästhetik'"
console.log(f("Hämisch rieb er sich die H'a'nde")) // Hämisch rieb er sich die Hände
console.log(f("H'a''a'slich isn't a German word")) // Hääslich isn't a German word
console.log(f("since it's really called h'a'sslich")) // since it's really called hässlich
<input id=i><pre id=o>


Explanation

  • s=> Anonymous function taking the input string as an argument via parameter "s".
  • s.replace(x,y) Returns the string with "x" replaced by "y".
  • /'[aeiou]'/gi Case insensitive regular expression that matches all occurrences of a vowel enclosed by single quotes.
  • c=> Passes each match of the regular expression to an anonymous function via parameter "c".
  • "ï ÖÄöä ËÜëüÏ "[n] Returns the nth character (0 indexed) in the string "ï ÖÄöä ËÜëüÏ ", similar to "ï ÖÄöä ËÜëüÏ ".charAt(n).
  • c.charCodeAt(1)%15 Gets the remainder of the character code of the second character in "c" (i.e. the vowel character) when divided by 15.

Alternative, 40/52 36/48 bytes (35/47 characters)

The following was my answer before combining diacritics were disallowed (Boo-urns!) - better viewed in this Fiddle

s=>s.replace(/'([aeiou])'/gi,"$1̈")

However, ETHproductions suggests that with the addition of .normalize() for an additional 12 bytes that this would be valid.

s=>s.replace(/'([aeiou])'/gi,"$1̈").normalize()
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  • \$\begingroup\$ OP still hasn't answered codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/59183/dzaima \$\endgroup\$
    – Adám
    May 2, 2017 at 17:40
  • \$\begingroup\$ No, if combining diacritics are allowed. \$\endgroup\$
    – Adám
    May 2, 2017 at 18:02
  • \$\begingroup\$ Combining diacritics are now prohibited. \$\endgroup\$
    – Adám
    May 2, 2017 at 18:30
  • \$\begingroup\$ I believe you can make this valid by adding .normalize() to the end of the function. \$\endgroup\$ May 2, 2017 at 18:33
  • \$\begingroup\$ Are you sure, @ETHproductions? If combining diacritics are prohibited, are they not prohibited from appearing in an answer at all? \$\endgroup\$
    – Shaggy
    May 2, 2017 at 19:29
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Perl 5, 25 bytes

s/'(\w)'/chr 1+ord$1/age

24 bytes, plus 1 for -pe instead of -e

This makes use of the rule that "you can choose any I/O codepage as long as it supports the characters AEIOUaeiouÄËÏÖÜäëïöü'". It also makes use of the /a flag on regexes, which causes \w to refer to precisely the characters in abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_0123456789 no matter how they're encoded.

The chosen I/O codepage for my script is this:

 1  a
 2  ä
 3  e
 4  ë
 5  i
 6  ï
 7  o
 8  ö
 9  u
10  ü
11  A
12  Ä
13  E
14  Ë
15  I
16  Ï
17  O
18  Ö
19  U
20  Ü
21  '

(I can't test this script on the test cases in the question, as they include some really weird characters, like t.)


Thanks to Grimy for saving me three bytes. Earlier, I had s/'([a-z])'/chr 1+ord$1/gie, which made use of (the encoding and) the interesting fact that [a-z] is special-cased in Perl to match precisely abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz no matter the encoding. My earlier answer is, IMO, more interesting, but this one is shorter, so, what the heck, I'll take it.

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    \$\begingroup\$ I carefully checked the "loopholes that are forbidden by default" list before posting this, and inventing a codepage wasn't among them. That, plus especially the fact that the question invited use of "any I/O codepage", seem to allow this answer. And then the a-z trick makes the answer actually interesting instead of merely a cheat. (IMO, anyway.) \$\endgroup\$
    – msh210
    May 2, 2017 at 23:35
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    \$\begingroup\$ This is the kind of trick that’s only funny once, but I believe you’re the first one to use it, so it works (= \$\endgroup\$
    – Grimmy
    May 3, 2017 at 7:48
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    \$\begingroup\$ You could save 3 bytes by using \w instead of [a-z], as well as /a instead of /i. If the "/a" modifier is in effect, \w matches the characters [a-zA-Z0-9_], regardless of how they’re encoded. \$\endgroup\$
    – Grimmy
    May 3, 2017 at 7:51
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Grimy, thanks! I'll edit.... \$\endgroup\$
    – msh210
    May 3, 2017 at 13:00
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Vim, 33 bytes

:s/\c'\([aeiou]\)'/<C-v><C-k>\1:/g
ii<esc>D@"

Try it online! in the backwards compatible V interpreter.

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Japt, 29 bytes

r"'%v'"@"ï   ÖÄöä ËÜëüÏ "gXc1

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Explanation

r"'%v'"@"ï   ÖÄöä ËÜëüÏ "gXc1

r"'%v'"@                       // Replace each match X of /'<vowel>'/ in the input with
        "ï   ÖÄöä ËÜëüÏ "g     //   the character in this string at index
                          Xc1  //     X.charCodeAt(1).
                               //   Values larger than the length of the string wrap around,
                               //   so this is effectively equal to " ... "[n%15].
                               // Implicit: output result of last expression
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    \$\begingroup\$ Using combining diacritics is controversial. \$\endgroup\$
    – Leaky Nun
    May 2, 2017 at 17:50
  • \$\begingroup\$ Beat me to it. Your solution is much shorter than mine though... Well done. \$\endgroup\$
    – Luke
    May 2, 2017 at 17:56
  • \$\begingroup\$ @LeakyNun Controversial for this question or in general? \$\endgroup\$ May 2, 2017 at 18:15
  • \$\begingroup\$ Controversial for this question because you raised it in the comments but it was never addressed. \$\endgroup\$
    – Leaky Nun
    May 2, 2017 at 18:15
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Adám Beat you by 38 seconds ;-) \$\endgroup\$ May 2, 2017 at 18:30
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Javascript, 67 bytes

s=>s.replace(/'.'/g,c=>"äëïöüÄËÏÖÜ"['aeiouAEIOU'.indexOf(c[1])]||c)

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Replace all characters between quotes with either the corresponding umlauted character, or the match itself if it's not in the group of characters that need changing.

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Jelly, 36 bytes

œṣ⁹Ṫ¤j
“.ạẏụ’D196;+\Ọż⁾''jЀØc¤;@Wç/

Try it online!

This seems pretty complicated for Jelly!

How?

Note: Since the characters are not on the code-page, but are within the range of a byte in Unicode I think they must be created from ordinals, so I have.

œṣ⁹Ṫ¤j - Link 1, Replace: char list S [...], list R [char T, char list F]
œṣ     - split S at sublists equal to:
    ¤  -   nilad followed by link(s) as a nilad:
  ⁹    -     link's right argument, R
   Ṫ   -     tail - yield char list F and modify R to become [T]
     j - join with R (now [T])
       - all in all split S at Rs and join back up with [T]s.

“.ạẏụ’D196;+\Ọż⁾''jЀØc¤;@Wç/ - Main link: char list S
       196;                   - 196 concatenate with:
“.ạẏụ’                        -   base 250 literal 747687476
      D                       -   to decimal list [7,4,7,6,8,7,4,7,6]
           +\                 - cumulative reduce with addition: [196,203,207,214,220,228,235,239,246,252]
             Ọ                - cast to characters: ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü
                       ¤      - nilad followed by link(s) as a nilad:
               ⁾''            -   literal ["'", "'"]
                     Øc       -   vowel yield: AEIOUaeiou
                  jЀ         -   join mapped:  ["'A'", "'E'", ...]
              ż               - zip together
                          W   - wrap S in a list
                        ;@    - concatenate (swap @rguments)
                           ç/ - reduce with last link (1) as a dyad
                              - implicit print
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V, 24 bytes

Óã'¨[aeiou]©'/±:
éiD@"

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Hexdump:

00000000: d3e3 27a8 5b61 6569 6f75 5da9 272f 160b  ..'.[aeiou].'/..
00000010: b13a 0ae9 6944 4022                      .:..iD@"

This is just a direct translation of my vim answer so that I can beat all of the golfing languages. :P

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Ruby, 62+1 = 63 bytes

Uses the -p flag for +1 byte.

gsub(/'([aeiou])'/i){$1.tr"AEIOUaeiou","ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü"}

Try it online!

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///, 67 bytes

/~/'\///`/\/\/~/'A~Ä`E~Ë`I~Ï`O~Ö`U~Ü`a~ä`e~ë`i~ï`o~ö`u~ü/

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This works by replacing non-dotted letters surrounded by single-quotes('A') with the same letter as a dotted, without the single quotes (Ä). A single replacement of this looks like this (before the golf): /'A'/Ä/.

The golf takes two common occurrences, // and '/, and uses them as replacements.

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Swift - 201 bytes

import Foundation;func g(s:String){var e=s;var r="aeiouAEIOUäëïöüÄËÏÖÜ".characters.map{String($0)};for i in r[0...9]{e=e.replacingOccurrences(of:"'\(i)'",with:r[r.index(of:i)!+10])};print(e)}

Usage: g("'A'sthetik") // => Ästhetik

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    \$\begingroup\$ characters.map{blah blah} and replacingOccurrences() really kill the fun :(( \$\endgroup\$
    – Mr. Xcoder
    May 2, 2017 at 18:18
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APL (Dyalog), 53 bytes

(v←'''[AEIOUaeiou]''')⎕R{'  ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü'[v⍳2⊃⍵.Match]}

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Uses PCRE Replace (saving the RegEx as v) to apply the following function to quoted vowels:

{ anonymous function

' ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü'[] index the string (note two spaces corresponding to '[) with:

  ⍵.Match the matched string

  2⊃ pick second letter (the vowel)

  v⍳ find index in v

}

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AWK, 99 bytes

{split("AEIOUaeiou",p,"")
for(i=1;i<=split("ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü",r,"");i++)gsub("'"p[i]"'",r[i])}1

Try it online!

I tried to come up with some clever regex within a gensub but failed :(

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SOGL, 43 35 (UTF-8) bytes

L∫:ÆW ':h++;"äëïöü”:U+Wŗ

Explanation:

L∫                        repeat 10 times, pushing current iteration (0-based)
  :                       duplicate the iteration
   ÆW                     get the index (1-based) in "aeiouAEIOU"
      ':h++               quote it
           ;              put the copy (current iteration) ontop
            "äëïöü”       push "äëïöü"
                   :      duplicate it
                    U     uppercase it
                     +    join together, resulting in "äëïöüÄËÏÖÜ"
                      W   get the index (1-based) in it
                       ŗ  replace [in the input, current char from "aeiouAEIOU" with
                          the corresponding char in "äëïöüÄËÏÖÜ"
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    \$\begingroup\$ Heh, one could think that ̈+ is a function in SOGL. \$\endgroup\$
    – Adám
    May 2, 2017 at 18:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ Combining diacritics are now prohibited. \$\endgroup\$
    – Adám
    May 2, 2017 at 18:31
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05AB1E, 30 29 24 bytes

-6 bytes thanks to Emigna

žMDu«S''«''ì"äëïöü"Du«S:

05AB1E conveniently has the characters äëïöü in its code page.

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(old code)

žMDu«Svy''.ø})"äëïöü"Du«¹ŠS:

Explanation (outdated):

žM                             Push aeiou                    ['aeiou']
  D                            Duplicate                     ['aeiou', 'aeiou']
   u                           Uppercase                     ['aeiou', 'AEIOU']
    «                          Concatenate                   ['aeiouAEIOU']
     vy                        For each...
       ''                        Push '
         .ø                      Surround a with b (a -> bab)
           }                   End loop
            )                  Wrap stack to array           [["'a'", "'e'", "'i'", "'o'", "'u'", "'A'", "'E'", "'I'", "'O'", "'U'"]]
             "äëïöü"           String literal.               [["'a'", "'e'", "'i'", "'o'", "'u'", "'A'", "'E'", "'I'", "'O'", "'U'"], 'äëïöü']
                    Du«        Duplicate, uppercase, concat  [["'a'", "'e'", "'i'", "'o'", "'u'", "'A'", "'E'", "'I'", "'O'", "'U'"], 'äëïöüÄËÏÖÜ']
                       ¹       Push first input
                        Š      Push c, a, b                  ["'A'sthetik", ["'a'", "'e'", "'i'", "'o'", "'u'", "'A'", "'E'", "'I'", "'O'", "'U'"], 'äëïöüÄËÏÖÜ']
                          S    Convert to char list          ["'A'sthetik", ["'a'", "'e'", "'i'", "'o'", "'u'", "'A'", "'E'", "'I'", "'O'", "'U'"], ['ä', 'ë', 'ï', 'ö', 'ü', 'Ä', 'Ë', 'Ï', 'Ö', 'Ü']]
                           :   Replace all                   ['Ästhetik']
                               Implicit print

Try it online!

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  • \$\begingroup\$ You could replace with Š. \$\endgroup\$
    – Emigna
    May 3, 2017 at 10:36
  • \$\begingroup\$ You could save a few more bytes with žMDu«S''«''ì"äëïöü"Du«S: \$\endgroup\$
    – Emigna
    May 3, 2017 at 10:42
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Emigna Thanks again. \$\endgroup\$
    – Okx
    May 3, 2017 at 10:44
  • \$\begingroup\$ You also don't need the I at the beginning :) \$\endgroup\$
    – Emigna
    May 3, 2017 at 10:45
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Python 3.6, 98 92 characters

import re;a=lambda i,p="'([AEIOUaeiou])'":re.sub(p,lambda x:'ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü'[p.index(x[1])-3],i)

It's a function, not a complete program.

Formatted for readability:

import re

a = lambda i, p="'([AEIOUaeiou])'":\
    re.sub(p, lambda x: 'ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü'[p.index(x[1]) - 3], i)

Thanks to @ValueInk for clever tips for further golfing.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Does not run for me. Stops with a TypeError. \$\endgroup\$ May 3, 2017 at 11:40
  • \$\begingroup\$ @totallyhuman are you sure? It seems to be working for me. You need to call the a function with the string you want to replace. \$\endgroup\$ May 3, 2017 at 11:41
  • \$\begingroup\$ Try it here. \$\endgroup\$ May 3, 2017 at 11:45
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    \$\begingroup\$ Python docs reports that match.__getitem__(g) is new to Python 3.6 so it should probably be specified in your header. Also, if you change your regex to '([AEIOUaeiou])' you save a byte by changing x[0][1] to x[1] and use -3 instead of -2. \$\endgroup\$
    – Value Ink
    May 3, 2017 at 19:58
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    \$\begingroup\$ Actually, it's even shorter to go import re;a=lambda i,p="'([AEIOUaeiou])'":re.sub ... since you cut out quite a bit of overhead from no longer needing a return statement! \$\endgroup\$
    – Value Ink
    May 3, 2017 at 20:11
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Retina, 39 bytes

iT`A\EI\OUaei\ou'`ÄËÏÖÜäëïöü_`'[aeiou]'

Try it online!

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