From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-01-15T01:50:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Re curly quotes and forcing ascci Ezra Zygmuntowicz writes: > 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? What format is the text in? Could you maybe post a snippet, if possible? (And, btw, can you tell me the URL of that newspaper. I'm very interested in putting obituraries online, since that is basically the only reason our local newspaper gets read at all...) > Thanks- > -Ezra -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org