Re: Quick way to convert to ASCII

Text::Unidecode looks like it does exactly that. It's pure Perl, but since it's essentially a giant lookup table for all of Unicode, it's not small (748k).

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Re^2: Quick way to convert to ASCII by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 26, 2006 at 04:47 UTC
It gets the ligature right and has a great motto :) : MOTTO The Text::Unidecode motto is: It's better than nothing! ...in both meanings: 1) seeing the output of unidecode(...) is better than just having all font-unavailable Unicode characters replaced with ``?'''s, or rendered as gibberish; and 2) it's the worst, i.e., there's nothing that Text::Unidecode's algorithm is better than. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]

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Re^2: Quick way to convert to ASCII
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 26, 2006 at 04:47 UTC

It gets the ligature right and has a great motto :) :

MOTTO

The Text::Unidecode motto is:

It's better than nothing!

...in both meanings: 1) seeing the output of unidecode(...) is better than just having all font-unavailable Unicode characters replaced with ``?'''s, or rendered as gibberish; and 2) it's the worst, i.e., there's nothing that Text::Unidecode's algorithm is better than.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

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