Re: Converting from UTF-8 to ASCII for gecos field.

Graham Barr wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2010, at 13:47 , Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>> 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"?
> 
> Here are a couple of modules on CPAN that might be of some help
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Text::Undiacritic
> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Lingua::Translit
> 
> Graham.
> 
> 

Text::Undiacritic was exactly what I needed.

Thanks.


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Prentice