Re: [Net::LDAP] Converting from UTF-8 to ASCII for gecos field.

Prentice Bisbal wrote on 10/14/10 1:47 PM:
> Greetings.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a good way of converting a string from UTF-8 to IA5
> (ASCII) for the gecos attribute. For example, I have the hypotheical
> user Ërïç Cärtmân, with a lot of accented characters in his name
> converting his name to ASCII using this code:
> 
> my $gecos = encode('ascii', $cn);
> 
> Turns it into this ugly mess:
> 
> gecos: ?r?? C?rtm?n
> 
> Anyone know of any decent perl functions that could turn it into
> something more readable, like "Eric Cartman"?
> 

use Search::Tools::Transliterate;

my $ascifier = Search::Tools::Transliterate->new( ebit => 0 );

my $gecos = $ascifier->convert($gecos);



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