Polish letter and Faker::Internet.user_name (expected: replacement by ASCII letters, what happens: removal)

[matkoniecz]

Faker::Internet.user_name("Łucja")

returns

ucja

I would expect it to return

lucja

Affected signs: ą, Ą ć Ć ę Ę ł Ł ń Ń ó Ó ś Ś ź Ź ż Ż

Commonly accepted and widespread method of dealing with inability of many systems to use proper UTF-8 is to replace this letters with closest ASCII letter.

[matkoniecz]

I am using following fix in my script:

class Faker::InternetPL < Faker::Internet
    def self.user_name(name)
        changes = {
        "ą" => "a",
        "Ą" => "A",
        "ć" => "c",
        "Ć" => "C",
        "ę" => "e",
        "Ę" => "E",
        "ł" => "l",
        "Ł" => "L",
        "ń" => "n",
        "Ń" => "N",
        "ó" => "o",
        "Ó" => "O",
        "ś" => "s",
        "Ś" => "S",
        "ź" => "z",
        "Ź" => "Z",
        "ż" => "z",
        "Ż" => "Z",
        }
        changes.each do |old, new|
            name = name.gsub(old, new)
        end
        return super(name)
    end
end

[mhutter]

Note for someone willing to fix this: maybe stringex does the trick

[matkoniecz]

It seems that Polish is not listed below "Currently, built-in translations are available for the following languages:".

[vbrazo]

@matkoniecz could we close this issue or you guys need help to solve it?

[matkoniecz]

@vbrazo At time of reporting it Faker was unable to handle UTF-8 letters, even by converting them to ASCII.

I see no reason to close this unless this issue is now fixed.

[vbrazo]

@matkoniecz ok cool! Thanks for the quick follow-up. I'm going to take a look at this issue in the next days. Lemme know if you have any new ideas on how to solve it.

[matkoniecz]

As I reread it - I would expect Faker to just handle UTF-8 text.

Originally mentioned conversion to ASCII is an overcomplicated crutch that should not be necessary.