How to convert letters with accents, umlauts, etc to their ASCII counterparts in Perl?

Question

I\'m writing a program that works with documents in Perl and a lot of the documents have characters such as ä, ö, ü, é, etc (both capital and lowercase). I\'d l

Answer 1

As usual, if you think of a problem which most certainly is not yours only, there's already a solution on CPAN. ) In this case it's called Text::Unidecode

use warnings;
use strict;
use utf8;
use Text::Unidecode;
print unidecode('ä, ö, ü, é'); # will print 'a, o, u, e'