From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T09:58:31+09:00
Subject: Re curly quotes and forcing ascci

Listers-

	I'm doing some text munging for the obituaries to go online at the  
newspaper i work for. I have a simple question. Is there a way to  
convert some text to plain ascii? i mean the text I am processing has  
curly quotes and a few other rich text chars in it. Is there a pure  
ruby way of converting these chars into their plain ascii  
counterparts short of a regex for each char?

Thanks-
-Ezra