unidecode

A library for transliteratively converting UTF-8 text to US-ASCII.

Usage

require "rubygems"
require "unidecode"

puts "Михаил Горбачёв".to_ascii # => "Mikhail Gorbachiov"

Requirements

Just regular, ol’ Ruby with the standard YAML library.

Note

This code is a Ruby port of Sean M. Burke’s Perl library Text::Unidecode, search.cpan.org/~sburke/Text-Unidecode-0.04/lib/Text/Unidecode.pm. The same caveats, notes, and constraints listed there apply here though the Ruby implementation here is slightly different, specifically the addition of String#to_ascii.

Contact

You can contact me via email ([email protected]) or the Google Group I’ve set up at groups.google.com/group/unidecode.

Thanks

Thanks to Brian Cully <[email protected]> and RubyPanther for all their patience and assistance.

Copyright

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.