"Removing Accents" from unicode strings

[email protected] (Agnar Renolen) 29 Oct 2005 22:12:36 +0200

Newsgroups	perl.unicode
Message-ID	<1130616756.4355.8.camel@hekla>

Hello,

I need to convert strings obtained from a mysql database in utf8 format
into a fileformat to be uploaded to specific hardware (specifically
GPS's).  Some of these formats may only allow unaccented characters, so
I need a way to convert accented characters into their respective base
characters, g.e. unicode 'Ã³' into ASCII 'o', 'Ã¤' into 'a' and so  forth.

Is there an easy way to do this in Perl?

Agnar Renolen
Trondheim, NORWAY