begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:35:00PM -0800: > Anyone know of a library or utility that can be fed a UTF string, and > stomp it down to the most-visually-equivalent ASCII string? > > I'm looking for something that will basically take all foreign > language gylphs and replace them with the nearest-looking ASCII > equivalent.
Would converting to UTF-7 work? > Perl is my current tool of choice, but either my search-fu is weak, or > there simply isn't anything available right now. What about glyphs that don't look like any ASCII character? Kanji is full of such glyphs -- only a very few might work ( 1 -> -, 2 -> =, etc.). -- Make this a project for a student grad; Pay 'em a pittance in case they get mad. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
