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.).

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