Transliteration in ruby

Question

What is the simplest way for transliteration of non English characters in ruby. That is conversion such as:

translit "Gévry"
#=> "Gevry"

Answer 1

Ruby has an Iconv library in its stdlib which converts encodings in a very similar way to the usual iconv command

Answer 2

Try taking a look at this script from TechniConseils which replaces accented characters in a string. Example of usage:

"Gévry".removeaccents #=> Gevry