From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-09-26T07:59:10+09:00
Subject: Re: replacing diacritics by simple character

Une B�vue wrote:
> Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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"
>>
>> :-(
> 
> Are u sure about the encoding of "a�ou� �" ?

yep.

 >> str = "a�ou� �"
=> "a\303\251ou\303\257 \303\206" #(that's utf8 allright)
 >> i.iconv(str)
=> "a?ou? AE"

but like I said, translit doesn't work the same on all platforms (I'm on 
ubuntu btw)

Daniel