On Sep 25, 2007, at 18:55, F. Senault wrote:

>> do u know of a way to replace diacritics by simple character (ie. : é
>> -o-> e)
>>
>> the same with ligatures (ie. :  -o-> AE )
>>
>> using tables ?
>
> IConv can do that for you :

An alternative approach is something like Sean M. Burke's 
Text::Unidecode:

http://interglacial.com/~sburke/tpj/as_html/tpj22.html
http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Text-Unidecode-0.04/lib/Text/Unidecode.pm


Here is an example of an implementation of Unidecode in Lua [1]:

local Unidecode = require( 'Unidecode' )

print( Unidecode( '§®§à§ã§Ü§Ó§Ñ' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'Ë̵þ' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'â¾°Ð¥¯¥Û¥­¥Û¥¹âÀ¥«' ) )
print( Unidecode( '' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'Åìµþ' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'µþÅÔ»Ô' ) )
print( Unidecode( '' ) )
print( Unidecode( '-' ) )
print( Unidecode( '  ' ) )
print( Unidecode( '' ) )
print( Unidecode( 'Géometrie Différentielle' ) )

 > Moskva
 > beijing
 > Athena
 > seoul
 > dongjing
 > jingdushi
 > nepaal
 > te'labiyb-yapvo
 > tal 'abiyb yaafaa
 > thran
 > Geometrie Differentielle

Cheers,

PA.

[1] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/Unidecode.lua