normalizing channel names with unique fonts

[fair knot]

im running into an issue where i have an autocomplete option for channel names from my database, but the channel names have unique fonts that make the autocomplete pretty much useless for focused values. is there a js method or package that can help me with this? i tried normalizing with ascii but i cant seem to figure it out

[echo halo]

You mean the emojis? If so you should still be able to index the column to use with an auto-complete feature with your bot.
If you are storing the channel names as utf8_unicode_520_ci or utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci then you'll need to create a prefix index over that column (depending on the database used. I use mariaDB / mysql ) has there is a limit on how it builds indexes on very long character sets so your autocomplete might be breaking because of that.
CREATE INDEX idx_autocomplete_prefix ON your_table (channel_name(100));
Means create an index limiting it to the first 100 characters. This works well with LIKE '%foo' but has terrible performance when used with wildcards LIKE '%foo%'

You can also normalize the search stirng in JS

const normalizedSearch = searchString.trim().normalize("NFC");

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize

[fair knot]

unfortunately no im referring to custom fonts in chanel names, as discord allows channel names to be rendered as custom copy/pastable fonts. these get stored as text in that font in the api, and when u get channel names they still mantain that font, which makes autocomplete not work for those channels. normalize() doesn't work sadly for this

[gusty zenith]

Are you talking about Unicode characters? Because you can't change the font of channel names

[fair knot]

Im not really sure how unicode works, but im assuming even if its a different font shouldnt the character render the same?

For example one of the channels is called 🔒|ᴀɴɢᴇʟ-ʟᴏᴄᴋs

but if i type in "angel" in the autocomplete it doesnt recognize that as the same as the channel

i just want a way to normalize the channel name in any way so i can match and display the channel names with different fonts

[gusty zenith]

That's the same font, but different characters

"Latin Letter Small Capital G" is a different character than "G"

[fair knot]

that makes a lot more sense

any easy way that you know of to recognize those other characters as basic letters

[gusty zenith]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/any-ascii