is there a good way to convert “special” accented chars to their base
chars?
as an example i want “àéìòù” => “aeiou”
i’m using several gsub now
“àèìòù”.gsub(“à”,“a”).gsub(“è”,“e”).gsub(“ì”,“i”)…
it works but i wonder if there is something better than this.
Well something like
char_from = “à éìòù”
char_to = “aeiou”
x = “à éìòù”.gsub(char_from, char_to)
puts x
would at least make the code more maintainable
your code convert only that sequence of character. what i need is to
convert those accented char in every word.
so “città” => “citta”, “caffè” => “caffe” and so on
maybe some regexp?
On 10 Mag, 12:50, Peter H. [email protected]
Mmm
Just noticed another problem
char_from = “à éìòù”
char_to = “aeiou”
puts char_from.size => 10
puts char_to.size => 5
At least on my Mac. The problem here is encoding.
Looks trickier than I first thought, would be a cinch if this was
unicode
and we were using Java 
Just decompose the unicode character and drop
the
accent characters.
Ignore everything I have said and lets hope someone who knows about this
can
suggest a solution, I am intrigued by this.
I’m having this very same problem when String.upcase() is not
uppercasing accentuated characters.
It seems that the problem is the encoding again.
regards
2010/5/10 Peter H. [email protected]:
suggest a solution, I am intrigued by this.
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Oliver Hernàndez Valls
eugenio wrote:
your code convert only that sequence of character. what i need is to
convert those accented char in every word.
so “citt�” => “citta”, “caff�” => “caffe” and so on
maybe some regexp?
You’ll probably have to convert your text to normal form D or KD, then
filter out combining marks.
Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]