From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T03:38:20+09:00
Subject: Re: remove non-ASCII characters in a string

pere.noel@laponie.com.invalid (Une b�vue) writes:

> 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?

How about this:

require 'iconv'
puts Iconv.open("ASCII//TRANSLIT", "ISO-8859-1").iconv("I�t�rn�ti�n�liz�ti�n")

#=> I~nt"ern^ati^on`alizaetion

> une b�vue
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