From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-09-26T07:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: replacing diacritics by simple character

F. Senault wrote:
> 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"

That doesn't work on all platforms. For me:

 >> require "iconv"
=> true
 >> i = Iconv.new("ASCII//TRANSLIT", "UTF-8")
=> #<Iconv:0xb7cf28e0>
 >> i.iconv("a�ou� �")
=> "a?ou? AE"

:-(