On Oct 14, 2010, at 13:47 , Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Can anyone suggest a good way of converting a string from UTF-8 to IA5
> (ASCII) for the gecos attribute. For example, I have the hypotheical
> user Ërïç Cärtmân, with a lot of accented characters in his name
> converting his name to ASCII using this code:
>
> my $gecos = encode('ascii', $cn);
>
> Turns it into this ugly mess:
>
> gecos: ?r?? C?rtm?n
>
> Anyone know of any decent perl functions that could turn it into
> something more readable, like "Eric Cartman"?
Here are a couple of modules on CPAN that might be of some help
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Text::Undiacritic
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Lingua::Translit
Graham.
