From: pere.noel@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_b=E9vue?=)
Date: 2006-01-25T00:47:01+09:00
Subject: Re: remove non-ASCII characters in a string

Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> wrote:

> My version might look like this:
> 
> NON_ASCII = /[\x80-\xff]/
> "I�t�rn�ti�n�liz�ti�n".gsub(NON_ASCII, "?") #=> "I?t?rn?ti?n?liz?ti?n"

i'd like not to remove no-ascii chars but replace all accentuated chars
(in an UTF-8 string) by them non-accentuated counterpart :

� => e
� => a
� => c

[...]

what is the best way to do that in Ruby?
-- 
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