I need a function which converts Latin Unicode characters to the closest equivalent ASCII characters, e.g. "�" -> "e".
Before I reinvent the wheel, does any public domain or GPL code for this already exist? If not, for the most part I expect I can make the mapping from the character names, e.g. ignore 'WITH ACUTE' in 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE' in <ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt>. Punctuation and other non-letters will be worse, but they are less important to me anyway. -- Hallvard
