http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:17:17 GMT DZone Snippets: accents code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5609 // Translit for Rails using ActiveSupport. (convert é in e and other utf8 codes in latin chars) <br /> <br /><code> <br />class String <br /> def translit <br /> ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Handlers::UTF8Handler.normalize(self,:d).split(//u).reject { |e| e.length > 1 }.join <br /> end <br />end <br /></code> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:03:29 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5609 mattetti (Matt Aimonetti) http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5499 // Strip accents from a string. For example, "Sigur Rós" => "Sigur Ros". <br /> <br /><code> <br />def strip_accents(string): <br /> import unicodedata <br /> return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(string)).encode('ASCII', 'ignore') <br /></code> Fri, 16 May 2008 00:19:40 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5499 pyninja (Adeel Khan) http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2384 This code replaces accents to normal chars(e.g "á" => "a"), everything that isn´t in "a-zA-Z0-9" to "", multiples spaces to one space, and one space to "-". <br /> <br />This is useful to make URLs from titles, like Netscape.com does... <br /> <br />"A new report recommends only work 4 -6 hrs a day" => "A-new-report-recommends-only-work-4-6-hrs-a-day" <br /> <br />"Video: \"Popular Mechanics\" editor debunks 9/11 myths" => "Video-Popular-Mechanics-editor-debunks-911-myths" <br /> <br />etc.. <br />The code is 95% based on http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/451 <br /> <br /><code> <br />def self.nice_slug(str) <br /> <br /> accents = { <br /> ['á','à','â','ä','ã'] => 'a', <br /> ['Ã','Ä','Â','À','Ã?'] => 'A', <br /> ['é','è','ê','ë'] => 'e', <br /> ['Ë','É','È','Ê'] => 'E', <br /> ['í','ì','î','ï'] => 'i', <br /> ['Ã?','ÃŽ','ÃŒ','Ã?'] => 'I', <br /> ['ó','ò','ô','ö','õ'] => 'o', <br /> ['Õ','Ö','Ô','Ã’','Ó'] => 'O', <br /> ['ú','ù','û','ü'] => 'u', <br /> ['Ú','Û','Ù','Ãœ'] => 'U', <br /> ['ç'] => 'c', ['Ç'] => 'C', <br /> ['ñ'] => 'n', ['Ñ'] => 'N' <br /> } <br /> accents.each do |ac,rep| <br /> ac.each do |s| <br /> str = str.gsub(s, rep) <br /> end <br /> end <br /> str = str.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]/,"") <br /> <br /> str = str.gsub(/[ ]+/," ") <br /> <br /> <br /> str = str.gsub(/ /,"-") <br /> <br /> #str = str.downcase <br /> <br /> end <br /></code> Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:09:27 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2384 sligowaths (Tiago Serafim)