Re: Stripping out Unicode combining characters (diacritics)

[David Kaufman]

Hi Michael,

"Doran, Michael D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm trying to strip out combining diacritics from some form input using 
> this code:
> [...]
> $sans_diacritics  =~ s/\p{M}*//g;

I do it like this:

use Encode;
use Unicode::Normalize qw(normalize);

my $ascii = encode('ascii', normalize('KD', $utf8), sub { $_[0]='' });