From: Dmitrii Dimandt <dmitriid@...>
Date: 2006-07-06T19:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters into equivalent ASCII

> What is the correctr Ruby-way to transform non-ASCII characters into> their sort-of equivalent ASCII characters?>> That is, how do I transform, say, Turkish characters ������������ into> corresponding igusocIGUSOC? For Russian the excellent rutils gem> exists. What about other languages? Or at least those with scripts> based on Latin.
Ok, found my own way:
Using Unicode and Rutils gems:
str = Unicode::decompose(string).bidi_translify(false)
Works like a charm :)