From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2007-02-14T03:34:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-English characters

Thiago Arrais wrote:
> Has anyone seen a non-english characters library for Ruby walking
> around? For now, I need to remove letter decorators (in other words,
> '�' becomes n and '�' becomes a) and drop non-alphanumeric
> characters ('!etter' becomes 'etter').
> 
> Those are some pretty simple functions that I could write myself
> (actually I already have), but it would be nice to use some better
> tested code.

You could use the "unicode" library, by  Yoshida Masato.
   http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html

Example:

$ cat uni.rb
require 'unicode'
txt = '�������������������!@#*$%^&'
puts Unicode.decompose(txt).delete('^0-9A-Za-z')

$ ruby uni.rb
naoouoeiAOACEEEI


Good luck.
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