How to remove accents and tilde in a C++ std::string

Question

I have a problem with a string in C++ which has several words in Spanish. This means that I have a lot of words with accents and tildes. I want to replace them for their not

Answer 1

If you can (if you're running Unix), I suggest using the tr facility for this: it's custom-built for this purpose. Remember, no code == no buggy code. :-)

Edit: Sorry, you're right, tr doesn't seem to work. How about sed? It's a pretty stupid script I've written, but it works for me.

#!/bin/sed -f
s/á/a/g;
s/é/e/g;
s/í/i/g;
s/ó/o/g;
s/ú/u/g;
s/ñ/n/g;