From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T18:58:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Letters with accent marks

On Nov 17, 2007 1:58 AM, Hickman Hickman <hickmanchris@msn.com> wrote:
> Any ideas?
>
> I have a textBox that users will be entering data into and most likely
> they will not bother to write the accent marks over the correct letters.
> When performing the search I need a way to look at the words in the
> database and say does it have a accent mark over it and if so ignore it
> and render it as a, e, i, o, u.  I tried to copy and paste these letters
> with accent marks into the file but the program doesnt recognize them.
>
> Any idea how to test for i with an accent mark, a with an accent mark,
> etc...

I guess Iconv library is able to convert any encoding to plain ascii.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/index.html

you can try it online at http://www.iconv.com/iconv.htm