From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-02-21T08:28:03+09:00
Subject: accents and String#tr

I wrote this method

   def self.normalize_for_sorting(s)
     return nil unless s
     norm = s.downcase
     norm.tr!('�����', 'aeiou')
     norm.tr!('�����', 'aeiou')
     norm.tr!('�����', 'aeiou')
     norm.tr!('�����', 'aeiou')
     norm.tr!('�����', 'aeiou')
     norm.tr!('�����', 'aeiou')
     norm.tr!('�����', 'aeiou')
     norm.tr!('�����', 'aeiou')
     norm
   end

to normalize strings for sorting. This script is UTF-8, everything is  
UTF-8 in my application, $KCODE is 'u'.

But it does not work, examples:

    Andr�s -> andruos
    L�pez  -> luupez
    P�rez  -> puorez

I tried to "force" it with Iconv.conv('UTF-8', 'ASCII', 'aeiou') to  
no avail. Any ideas?

-- fxn