transliteration

Transliterator::listIDs() will list IDs, but apparently it's not a complete list. In the example from this page , the ID looks like: Any-Latin; NFD; [:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove; NFC; [:Punctuation:] Remove; Lower(); which is kind of weird, because IDs are supposed to be unique. This looks more like a rule, but it doesn't work if I pass it to the createFromRules method :) Anyway, I'm trying to remove any punctuation from the string, except dash ( - ), or characters from a specific list. Do you know if that's possible? Or is there some documentation that better explains the syntax for the

I'm looking for a way to do the following PHP code in Ruby in a succinct and efficient manner: $normalizeChars = array('Š'=>'S', 'š'=>'s', 'Ð'=>'Dj','Ž'=>'Z', 'ž'=>'z', 'À'=>'A', 'Á'=>'A', 'Â'=>'A', 'Ã'=>'A', 'Ä'=>'A', 'Å'=>'A', 'Æ'=>'A', 'Ç'=>'C', 'È'=>'E', 'É'=>'E', 'Ê'=>'E', 'Ë'=>'E', 'Ì'=>'I', 'Í'=>'I', 'Î'=>'I', 'Ï'=>'I', 'Ñ'=>'N', 'Ò'=>'O', 'Ó'=>'O', 'Ô'=>'O', 'Õ'=>'O', 'Ö'=>'O', 'Ø'=>'O', 'Ù'=>'U', 'Ú'=>'U', 'Û'=>'U', 'Ü'=>'U', 'Ý'=>'Y', 'Þ'=>'B', 'ß'=>'Ss','à'=>'a', 'á'=>'a', 'â'=>'a', 'ã'=>'a', 'ä'=>'a', 'å'=>'a', 'æ'=>'a', 'ç'=>'c', 'è'=>'e', 'é'=>'e', 'ê'=>'e', 'ë'=>'e', 'ì'=>'i',

I have an array that consists of terms, some of them contain accented characters. I do a preg grep like this $data= array('Napoléon','Café'); $result = preg_grep('~' . $input . '~i', $data); So if user type in 'le' I would also want the result 'Napoléon' to be matched, which does not work with the ablove command. I did some searching and found that this function might be relevant preg_match("/[\w\pL]/u",$var); How can I combine these and make it work? This is not possible with a regular expression pattern only. It is not because you can not tell the regex engine to match all "e" and similars.