Ruby 1.9 doesn't support Unicode normalization yet

Question

I\'m trying to port over some of my old rails apps to Ruby 1.9 and I keep getting warnings about how \"Ruby 1.9 doesn\'t support Unicode normalization yet.\" I\'ve tracked

Answer 1

The StringEx Gem seems to work pretty well. It has no dependency on Iconv either.

It adds some methods to the String class, like "to_ascii" which does beautiful transliteration out of the box:

require 'stringex'
"äöüÄÖÜßë".to_ascii #=> "aouAOUsse"

Also, the Babosa Gem does a great job transliterating UTF-8 strings, even with language support:

"Jürgen Müller".to_slug.transliterate.to_s           #=> "Jurgen Muller"
"Jürgen Müller".to_slug.transliterate(:german).to_s  #=> "Juergen Mueller"

Enjoy.