From: Paul Barry <mail@...>
Date: 2006-03-17T12:44:46+09:00
Subject: removing diacritical marks

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Hello Rubyists,

I would like to remove the accents marks (a.k.a diacritical marks) from a
String.  Assuming "line" is a String, this gets most of them:

    line.gsub!(/[=C0=C1=C2=C3=C4]/,"A")
    line.gsub!(/[=E2=E3=E4=E0=E1]/,"a")
    line.gsub!(/[=C8=C9=CA=CB]/,"E")
    line.gsub!(/[=EA=EB=E8=E9]/,"e")
    line.gsub!(/[=CC=CD=CE=CF]/,"I")
    line.gsub!(/[=EE=EF=EC=ED]/,"i")
    line.gsub!(/[=D2=D3=D4=D5=D6]/,"O")
    line.gsub!(/[=F4=F5=F6=F2=F3]/,"o")
    line.gsub!(/[=D9=DA=DB=DC]/,"U")
    line.gsub!(/[=FB=FC=F9=FA]/,"u")
    line.gsub!(/=DD/,"Y")
    line.gsub!(/=FD/,"y")
    line.gsub!(/=F1/,"n")

Is there an easier/better way to do this?

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