I have the following string with UTF-8 encoding:
string = "C\u00EAlaV\u00EDta"
string.encoding
# => #<Encoding:UTF-8>
puts string
# => CêlaVíta
I'd like to remove all special characters and transform this into:
celavita
The reason I want to do this is to use it in a url. I keep getting URI::InvalidURIError from HTTParty.
I'm hoping there's a universal method I can also use on other strings.
Any ideas?
== Edit:
Based on Uri Agassi's duplicate mark, I've tried the following without success:
require "i18n"
string = "C\u00EAlaV\u00EDta"
I18n.transliterate(string)
# =>
# [deprecated] I18n.enforce_available_locales will default to true in the future. If you really want to skip validation of your locale you can set I18n.enforce_available_locales = false to avoid this message.
# ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
# from /Users/paron/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/i18n-0.6.11/lib/i18n/backend/transliterator.rb:79:in `gsub'
