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Hi all, I would like to propose the attached function ASCIIfy() to be added to the 'tools' package. Non-ASCII characters in character vectors can be problematic for R packages, but sometimes they cannot be avoided. To make packages portable and build without 'R CMD check' warnings, my solution has been to convert problematic characters in functions and datasets to escaped

Greetings, (using acts_as_ferret) So I have a book title "M?ngrel ?Horsemen?" in my index. Searching for "M?ngrel" retrieves the document. But I would like searching for "Mongrel" to also retrieve the document. Which it does not currently. Anyone have any good solutions to this problem? I suppose I could filter the documents and queries first which something