Rails - Jun 2005 - Convert international chars to ASCII for directory names

Not sure if this is possible, but...

We are trying to do an export function that puts all of our content in 
neatly organized folders named after the title of the collection. The 
catch is that our sections are all in portuguese. So for example:

Sections:
	Apresentação do Projeto
	Educação Ambiental
	etc...

Would have to go into folders:
	apresentacao_do_projeto
	educacao_ambiental
	etc...

Has anyone seen a situation like this before? In the worst case we 
could do a series of gsub operations on the string for all the 
characters we''d need to substitute and use a hash for the character 
mapping, but if it''s already been done I see no reason to reinvent the 
wheel :)
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> Has anyone seen a situation like this before? In the worst case we
> could do a series of gsub operations on the string for all the
> characters we''d need to substitute and use a hash for the
character
> mapping, but if it''s already been done I see no reason to reinvent
the
> wheel :)
Tuxxxie from #rubyonrails wrote an americanize method for the String
class to do just that, but for email addresses.  I don''t believe he
posted the code anywhere, though.

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rick
http://techno-weenie.net

On 21-jun-2005, at 0:23, Ben Jackson wrote:
> Not sure if this is possible, but...
>
> We are trying to do an export function that puts all of our content  
> in neatly organized folders named after the title of the  
> collection. The catch is that our sections are all in portuguese.  
> So for example:
>
> Sections:
>     Apresentação do Projeto
>     Educação Ambiental
>     etc...
>
> Would have to go into folders:
>     apresentacao_do_projeto
>     educacao_ambiental
>     etc...
>
> Has anyone seen a situation like this before? In the worst case we  
> could do a series of gsub operations on the string for all the  
> characters we''d need to substitute and use a hash for the
character
> mapping, but if it''s already been done I see no reason to reinvent
> the wheel :)
When I need to do this I use the process called "transliteration" -  
the translation of letters to Latin equivalents. Essentially, the  
Unicode Consirtium should have established the transliteration  
conventions for different alphabets - but I am not aware of a library  
implementing this, let alone Ruby bindings for such a library. For me  
with my russian alphabet the process si straightforward though.

For "inspiration" look at the dirify method in MovableType.

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Julian "Julik" Tarkhanov

This is what I got from Tuxxxie on #rubyonrails:

http://rafb.net/paste/results/wLKrUB46.html

On 6/20/05, Julian ''Julik'' Tarkhanov
<listbox-RY+snkucC20@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> On 21-jun-2005, at 0:23, Ben Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Not sure if this is possible, but...
> >
> > We are trying to do an export function that puts all of our content
> > in neatly organized folders named after the title of the
> > collection. The catch is that our sections are all in portuguese.
> > So for example:
> >
> > Sections:
> >     Apresentação do Projeto
> >     Educação Ambiental
> >     etc...
> >
> > Would have to go into folders:
> >     apresentacao_do_projeto
> >     educacao_ambiental
> >     etc...
> >
> > Has anyone seen a situation like this before? In the worst case we
> > could do a series of gsub operations on the string for all the
> > characters we''d need to substitute and use a hash for the
character
> > mapping, but if it''s already been done I see no reason to
reinvent
> > the wheel :)
> 
> When I need to do this I use the process called "transliteration"
-
> the translation of letters to Latin equivalents. Essentially, the
> Unicode Consirtium should have established the transliteration
> conventions for different alphabets - but I am not aware of a library
> implementing this, let alone Ruby bindings for such a library. For me
> with my russian alphabet the process si straightforward though.
> 
> For "inspiration" look at the dirify method in MovableType.
> 
> --
> Julian "Julik" Tarkhanov
> 
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On 6/21/05, Rick Olson
<technoweenie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> This is what I got from Tuxxxie on #rubyonrails:
> 
> http://rafb.net/paste/results/wLKrUB46.html
> 
Sure that works for european languages,  but what about elvish?! ;)


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Koz

On Jun 21, 2005, at 12:45 AM, Rick Olson wrote:
> This is what I got from Tuxxxie on #rubyonrails:
>
> http://rafb.net/paste/results/wLKrUB46.html
Just to validate this approach, here is something similar in Java  
(within the context of a Lucene filter that will normalize terms to  
be indexed):

     http://rubyurl.com/zigoB