inflector.rb

# Replaces accented characters with their ascii equivalents.
def transliterate(string)
  Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit', 'utf-8', string).to_s
end

# The iconv transliteration code doesn't function correctly
# on some platforms, but it's very fast where it does function.
if "foo" != Inflector.transliterate("föö")
  def transliterate(string)
    string.mb_chars.normalize(:kd). # Decompose accented characters
      gsub(/[^\x00-\x7F]+/, '')     # Remove anything non-ASCII entirely (e.g. diacritics).
  end
end