Re: "Removing Accents" from unicode strings

[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig)) Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:08:07 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.unicode
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>>>>> On 29 Oct 2005 22:12:36 +0200, Agnar Renolen <[email protected]> said:

  > 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 'ó' into ASCII 'o', 'ä' into 'a' and so  forth.

  > Is there an easy way to do this in Perl?

Text::Unidecode

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andreas