Re: Unicode->ASCII approximate conversion

From: Radovan Garabik (garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2003 - 04:11:04 EST

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    On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:13:01AM +0100, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
    > I need a function which converts Latin Unicode characters to the closest
    > equivalent ASCII characters, e.g. "é" -> "e".
    >
    > Before I reinvent the wheel, does any public domain or GPL code for this
    > already exist?

    konwert (konwert UTF8-ascii)
    and unaccent.
    See google for links :-) 

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