I wrote this extension to String a long time ago. I think it does what
you want.
require 'iconv'
class String
def pretty_url
Iconv.iconv("ASCII//IGNORE//TRANSLIT", "UTF-8", self).join.sanitize
rescue
self.sanitize
end
def sanitize
self.gsub(/[^a-z._0-9 -]/i, "").tr(".", "_").gsub(/(\s+)/,
"_").dasherize.downcase
end
end
Thibaut Barrère wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I could not find it so far - but maybe rails i18n is the right list for
> that
> question: is there something already available somewhere in the ruby
> space
> to remove accents and other diacritics from a string ? (like:
> translation
> éphémère to ephemere, etc)
>
> I've seen the mephisto PermalinkFu trick (iconv from utf-8 to
> ascii//ignore//translit) but it doesn't work on my workstation.
>
> I've attached DiacriticsFu which I wrote and is working fine for me -
> I'd be
> happy to find something cleaner, cross-platform, and which does not rely
> on
> Rails like this implementation (it would most likely work with unicode
> hacks)
>
> any hint, comment, link, idea ?
>
> cheers
>
> Thibaut
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