From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T01:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: replacing diacritics by simple character

Le 25 septembre � 18:25, Une B�vue a �crit :

(Hello again... :) )

> do u know of a way to replace diacritics by simple character (ie. : �
> -o-> e)
> 
> the same with ligatures (ie. : � -o-> AE )
> 
> using tables ?

IConv can do that for you :

>> require "iconv"
=> true
>> i = Iconv.new("ASCII//TRANSLIT", "ISO-8859-15")
=> #<Iconv:0x84d4448>
>> i.iconv("a�ou� �")
=> "a'eou"i AE"
>> i.iconv("a�ou� �").gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]/, '')
=> "aeoui AE"

Fred
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