Hello monks,

I'm using Text::Query::Advanced to let the user search in a number of documents. The problem I have is that most of these documents are written in Spanish (yes, I'm Spanish, that's the reason of my bad English ;)), and they have "funny" characters, i.e.: áéíóú... . The problem is that the search "camion" should match the word "camión" as well as "camion", so I'm trying to figure out a simple way to get rid of those characters.

A simple substitution may work:

s/á/a/g;
s/é/e/g;
...
s/Ú/u/g;

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But that would make it too slow, as it would have to do lot of passes through the string (maybe a long string), and I have to be aware of more characters in a future (â, ä, à, ...)

I've tried the tr/áéíóú/aeiou/ solution, but as "á" is a two byte character, it doesn't work.

I've read perluniintro and perlunicode, but I've not found anything that can help me.

Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks in advance,

deibyz

Edited: Title changed.

In reply to Playing with extended chars by deibyz

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