module Sterile

"ýůçký".transliterate # => "yucky"

of more pedantic matches.
Passing an option of :optical => true will prefer optical mapping instead
by Eric Boehs at https://github.com/ericboehs/to_slug
superior results to iconv. The optical conversion data is based on work
which is in turn a port of Perl's Unidecode and ostensibly provides
ASCII equivalents. This is based on data from the stringex gem (https://github.com/rsl/stringex)
Transliterate Unicode [and accented ASCII] characters to their plain-text

def transliterate(string, options = {})
  options = {
    :optical => false
  }.merge!(options)
  if options[:optical]
    transmogrify(string) do |mapping, codepoint|
      mapping[1] || mapping[0] || ""
    end
  else
    transmogrify(string) do |mapping, codepoint|
      mapping[0] || mapping[1] || ""
    end
  end
end