Martin DeMello wrote:
> Dave Burt <dave / burt.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>   tranmap.inject(self) do |str, (utf8, asc)|
>>     p [utf8, asc]
>>     str.gsub(utf8, asc)
>>   end
>> end
>> end
>>
>> "IõÓnãÕißÍizëÕiøî".utf8_trans_unaccent #=> "Internationalizaetion"
>
> # one time preprocessing
> INTL, ASC = "", ""
> tranmap.each {|k,v|
>  INTL << k
>  ASC << v
> }
>
> # quicker than repeated gsubs:
> str.tr(INTL, ASC)

Except that won't work, because tr only matches bytes, not multi-byte 
characters.

(It might work after applying one of the Unicode string extensions that have 
been floating around recently. But not in standard Ruby.)

Cheers,
Dave