From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-11-09T07:10:12+09:00
Subject: Transliteration problems

Dear all,

I'd like to transliterate some accented text, just removing the accents.
The encoding should be iso-8859-1 (source and destination).

I am on Ubuntu 8.04, and I get the following:


require "rubygems"
require "iconv"

s="caff�"
p Iconv.iconv("ascii//translit","iso-8859-1",s)[0]   => "caff?"

Is there any way to get "caffe" ?

I read in some earlier post to a Ruby list that there are different language locales to Iconv,
but I couldn't find how to specify any in Ruby Iconv :

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/40d823813170aa9a

Thank you very much for your help!

Best regards,

Axel 

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