From: Dmitrii Dimandt <dmitriid@...>
Date: 2006-07-06T20:06:16+09:00
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters into equivalent ASCII

On 7/6/06, Paul Battley <pbattley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/07/06, Dmitrii Dimandt <dmitriid@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Using Unicode and Rutils gems:
> >
> > str = Unicode::decompose(string).bidi_translify(false)
>
> Interesting. I didn't know Rutils could do that (and why would I? I
> can't read Russian!)
>

Well, Ruils simply transliterate from-to Latin-Cyrillic.
bidi_translify additionally removes "insignificant" characters such as
commas and the like, which works well on decomposed Unicode strings.