Hi Bob, I don't know about such a method, but I hope it exists. In the mean time, I've tried one I found on this same forum (in French: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/144612#784212). Unfortunately, it doesn't work when I run my application, but it works in irb! I suspect it's got to do with encoding...
def ApplicationHelper.remove_accents( str ) accents = { ['á','à','â','ä','ã','Ã','Ä','Â','À'] => 'a', ['é','è','ê','ë','Ë','É','È','Ê'] => 'e', ['í','ì','î','ï','I','Î','Ì'] => 'i', ['ó','ò','ô','ö','õ','Õ','Ö','Ô','Ò'] => 'o', ['œ'] => 'oe', ['ß'] => 'ss', ['ú','ù','û','ü','U','Û','Ù'] => 'u' } accents.each do |ac,rep| ac.each do |s| str.gsub!(s, rep) end end return str end I tried setting $KCODE="UTF-8" or $KCODE="ISO-8859-1" at the top of my source code, as suggested by cwilliams (creator of RadRails: http://forums.aptana.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8234), but that doesn't solve my problem. If you get this working in a real application, please let me know; I'm getting desparate! Thanks, Chris. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---