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Ruby 1.8.7 iconv, I always forget this
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use_iconv_to_convert_to_ascii.rb
require 'iconv'
class String
def to_ascii
Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit', 'utf-8', self).to_s
end
end
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