Any ideas? I have a textBox that users will be entering data into and most likely they will not bother to write the accent marks over the correct letters. When performing the search I need a way to look at the words in the database and say does it have a accent mark over it and if so ignore it and render it as a, e, i, o, u. I tried to copy and paste these letters with accent marks into the file in order to test for them but the program (putty) doesnt recognize them and renders a bunch of random letters. Any idea how to test for i with an accent mark, a with an accent mark, etc... -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---