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Unaccent gem

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Introduction

Replace a string’s accent characters with ASCII characters.

Based on Perl Text::Unaccent from CPAN.

For docs go to

Want to help? We’re happy to get pull requests.

Quickstart

Install:

gem install sixarm_ruby_unaccent

Bundler:

gem “sixarm_ruby_unaccent”, “=1.0.0”

Require:

require “sixarm_ruby_unaccent”

Examples

French:

require “sixarm_ruby_unaccent”
str = “déjà vu”;
str.unaccent => “deja vu”;

Greek:

require “sixarm_ruby_unaccent”
str = “νέα” (aka “\x{03AD}\x{03BD}\x{03B1}”)
str.unaccent => “νεα” (aka “\x{03B5}\x{03BD}\x{03B1}”)

Changes

  • 2012-03-14 1.0.0 Update docs, tests
  • 2011-10-06 1.0.0 Updates for gem publishing ## License

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