Translit for Rails using ActiveSupport. (convert é in e and other utf8 codes in latin chars)

gistfile1.rb

# from http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5609

class String
  def translit
    ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Handlers::UTF8Handler.normalize(self,:d).split(//u).reject { |e| e.length > 1 }.join
  end
end

gistfile2.txt

Other solutions by Obie Fernandez: http://www.jroller.com/obie/tags/unicode