From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2007-01-19T22:10:14+09:00
Subject: Re: transform non-english text

Le 19 janvier 2007 � 10:19, Hu Ma a �crit :

> Hello,
> I have a Ruby aplication that deals with non-english text and I want to
> transform some of that text to [^a-zA-Z0-9].

You could try with Iconv to convert from your encoding to ASCII.  Quick
example :

>> require "iconv"
=> true
>> Iconv.iconv("ascii//translit", "iso-8859-1", "a�io�")
=> ["a'eio`u"]
>> Iconv.iconv("ascii//translit", "iso-8859-1", "a�iou")[0].tr('^a-z', '')
=> "aeiou"

Fred
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