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Peter Karman  
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 More options Oct 14 2010, 3:07 pm
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From: pe...@peknet.com (Peter Karman)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:07:38 -0500
Local: Thurs, Oct 14 2010 3:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Net::LDAP] Converting from UTF-8 to ASCII for gecos field.
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Prentice Bisbal wrote on 10/14/10 1:47 PM:

> Greetings.

> Can anyone suggest a good way of converting a string from UTF-8 to IA5
> (ASCII) for the gecos attribute. For example, I have the hypotheical
> user r C rtm n, with a lot of accented characters in his name
> converting his name to ASCII using this code:

> my $gecos = encode('ascii', $cn);

> Turns it into this ugly mess:

> gecos: ?r?? C?rtm?n

> Anyone know of any decent perl functions that could turn it into
> something more readable, like "Eric Cartman"?

use Search::Tools::Transliterate;

my $ascifier = Search::Tools::Transliterate->new( ebit => 0 );

my $gecos = $ascifier->convert($gecos);

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Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  pe...@peknet.com


 
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