This is a sanitization plugin.
It turns characters with combining diacritical marks into their single-codepoint equivalent.
The character "Ä" can be represented two ways:
- by codepoint 196
- by the combination of the codepoints 65 (A) and 776 ( ̈ )
This plugin ensures it is the first option wherever possible.
Add 'jekyll-diacritic-compressor' to the jekyll_plugins group in your Gemfile.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/janosch-x/jekyll-diacritic-compressor.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.