stripping accents

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Re: stripping accents by fokat (Deacon) on Feb 02, 2003 at 04:58 UTC
Use Unicode::Map8. This is a fragment of an article of mine (sorry, can't provide a direct link right now) that uses it: `use Unicode::Map8; my $map = Unicode::Map8->new('ASCII') print $map->to8($map->to16($wd->decode($my_utf8_string)));` [download] Note that using `ASCII` to do the conversion, will simply strip the accents. You can usa `addpair()` to provide translations. For instance, you can use `a` instead of `á`. Best regards -lem, but some call me fokat	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: stripping accents by jeteve (Pilgrim) on Jun 01, 2004 at 12:08 UTC
I. What $wd scalar stands for ?	[reply]
Re^3: stripping accents by fokat (Deacon) on Jun 04, 2004 at 20:49 UTC
jeteve asked along these lines... I. What $wd scalar stands for ? In this example, `$wd` is a MIME::WordDecoder object. See this (part of this) for more complete usage. At the time, I could not provide a link because the article wasn't published yet. Best regards -lem, but some call me fokat	[reply]
Re: Re: stripping accents by jeteve (Pilgrim) on Jun 01, 2004 at 12:11 UTC
I. What $wd stands for ?	[reply]