/**
 * Strip diacritics from a string, reproducing V8's
 *   s.normalize('NFD').replace(/[̀-ͯ]/g, '')
 * for every accented letter in every script (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese,
 * …) WITHOUT calling `String.prototype.normalize` — QuickJS (the runtime Javy
 * compiles to WASM) doesn't implement `normalize` at all, so relying on it would
 * make the WASM build diverge from the JS build on any accented title (e.g.
 * "Hôtel", "Rêves", "Ολυμπιάδα"). The folding table in `./diacritics.ts` is
 * generated from V8's NFD (scripts/gen-diacritics.mjs), so both engines fold
 * identically. The trailing regex also removes any already-decomposed standalone
 * combining marks (U+0300–U+036F), which works in both engines.
 */
export declare function foldDiacritics(input: string): string;
/**
 * Remove and strip separators from inputString (but keep ',;' characters).
 * Also keeps separators for single characters (e.g., S.H.I.E.L.D.).
 */
export declare function cleanup(inputString: string): string;
/**
 * Strip separator characters from both ends of the string.
 */
export declare function strip(inputString: string, chars?: string): string;
/**
 * Cleanup a raw value to perform raw comparison.
 */
export declare function rawCleanup(raw: string): string;
/**
 * Reorder the title by moving a trailing article to the front.
 * "The Dark Knight, The" → "The Dark Knight"
 * Also handles moving leading article to end: not the primary direction in Python.
 * Python's reorder_title moves "title, the" patterns to canonical form.
 */
export declare function reorderTitle(title: string, articles?: string[], separators?: string[]): string;