intelligent lexically encoding

[email protected] (Jerzy Giergiel)
Newsgroups perl.unicode
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
sorry for bugging people here with a trivial question. I need to  
convert from MacRoman encoding to asci (7-bit). Encode package simply  
replaces out of range characters with a question mark. I need  
something intelligent lexically speaking. For example aacute should  
be converted to a. Any suggestions?
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