On Sun, 11 May 2003 22:44:36 -0400, Ben Bennett
<fiji(_at_)ayup(_dot_)limey(_dot_)net> said:
> I am writing a perl module that can take a name as an argument to look
> up the namedays for the name. However, I would like to be able to do
> a caseless and accentless comparison on the names. The caseless part
> is pretty simple, I can just lc both (since lc is safe in Unicode
> rather than uc which may get odd with titlecase).
> What is the equivalent transformation to remove accents? perluniintro
> says that you should do that in some cases, but doesn't say how. I
> have poked around a bit and nothing springs out at me. Is there a
> preferred way to do this? Should I decompose the string then remove
> the accent characters? This seems really kludgy so there must be a
> better way.
Module id = Text::Unidecode
CPAN_USERID SBURKE (Sean M. Burke <sburke(_at_)cpan(_dot_)org>)
CPAN_VERSION 0.04
CPAN_FILE S/SB/SBURKE/Text-Unidecode-0.04.tar.gz
MANPAGE Text::Unidecode -- US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text
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andreas
