I think I'm having a brain fart but I'm sure there was a module that took a string with accented characters and turned them into the equivalent ASCII (or close enough è to 'e' for example. I'm not all that fussed about an EssSet to 'ss' or anything although that would be nice.
AM I smoking crack. I can't seem to find it on CPAN. -- the test for truth is still quicker than the addition
