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Unaccent gem

• Git: https://github.com/sixarm/sixarm_ruby_unaccent
• Doc: http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_unaccent/doc
• Gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/sixarm_ruby_unaccent
• Contact: Joel Parker Henderson, joel@sixarm.com
• Project: Changes, License, Contributing.

Introduction

Replace a string's accent characters with ASCII characters.

Based on Perl Text::Unaccent from CPAN.

For docs go to http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_unaccent/doc

Want to help? We're happy to get pull requests.

Install

Gem

Run this command in your shell or terminal:

gem install sixarm_ruby_unaccent

Or add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'sixarm_ruby_unaccent'

Require

To require this gem in your code:

require 'sixarm_ruby_unaccent'

Examples

French:

require "sixarm_ruby_unaccent"
str = "déjà vu";
str.unaccent => "deja vu";

Greek:

require "sixarm_ruby_unaccent"
str = "νέα" (aka "\x{03AD}\x{03BD}\x{03B1}")
str.unaccent => "νεα" (aka "\x{03B5}\x{03BD}\x{03B1}")