Alphabets Benchmarks - How many ways to unaccent a t ext string? Turn AÄÁaäá into AAAaaa. And the winner is.. .

Hello,

  let's try out half a dozen ways to unaccent a text string? [1]

  The challenge - What's the fastest way to turn `AÄÁaäá EÉeé IÍiíï
NÑnñ OÖÓoöó Ssß UÜÚuüú`
  into `AAAaaa EEee IIiii NNnn OOOooo Ssss UUUuuu`?

  Let's benchmark and the winner (so far) is... Spoiler: `gsub` .

    NON_ALPHA_CHAR_REGEX = /[^A-Za-z0-9 ]/    # use/try regex constant
for speed-up
    def unaccent_gsub( text, mapping )
      text.gsub( NON_ALPHA_CHAR_REGEX ) do |ch|
        mapping[ch] || ch
      end
    end


  Can you find a faster way? Show us.

  Happy data (and text) wrangling with ruby. Cheers. Prost.

[1]: https://github.com/sportdb/sport.db/tree/master/alphabets/benchmark

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