Thanks Morten. I assumed that was the problem.
What I am trying to go is convert UTF to Ascii and have the ascii text
still be readable. The code has to work in 3 different development
environments :windows xp (I know it sucks but its all I have at home),
osx (development at work when I have free time) and Heruko. The
unicode gem was the only code I got working in both Windows and OSX.
Here is the code:
Unicode.normalize_KD(text).gsub(/[^\x00-\x7F]/n,'')
This would convert a string like Mötley Crüe to Motley Crue which is
exactly what I want.
I just now lifted the following code from the acts_as_permalink_fu
that uses iconv and it did not work with Heroku. Mötley Crüe became
Mtley Cre
def escape(str)
s = (Iconv.iconv('ascii//translit//IGNORE', 'utf-8', str)).to_s
s.gsub!(/[^\w -]+/, '') # strip unwanted characters
s
end
For some reason Iconv gives my a "invalid encoding" error in Windows,
but that is a different issue.
I hope you know of some alternatives/suggestions.
Thanks,
Steve
On Jun 16, 5:49 pm, Morten Bagai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> The reason it's not installing is because the gem has binary
> dependencies and compiles native extensions. I noticed it's a very,
> very old gem release (9 years), and I couldn't find much info on it
> online. If it's possible for you to share a bit more info on how
> you're using it, we might be able to suggest a way of doing the same
> thing with more recent and easily supported libraries.
>
> Best,
>
> /Morten
>
> On Jun 16, 2008, at 8:29 AM, SteveG wrote:
>
>
>
> > Anyone?
>
> > On Jun 11, 5:01 pm, SteveG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hello all,
>
> >> I just tried to install the unicode gem and it does not look like it
> >> is loading. The Gem looked like it installed correct since its in the
> >> gems directory. Any ideas? I tried from both the console and a
> >> controller
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Steve
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