Converting wide characters to their nearest ASCII equivalents

[Avraham Hanadari]

Dave Scott wrote:
> That should be doable in just a few lines of code using Perl.
> 
> Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 
>> I'm running rsync right now to copy a lot of MP3s, and it's
>> choking on filenames containing a 'u' with an umlaut. I'd
>> like to be able to convert such characters to their nearest
>> ASCII equivalents -- 'u', in this case. Is there any method
>> that will do this in general?
>>
>>  
>>
> 
The convention in German is simply to add an e after the umlauted 
letter. In fact, the umlaut symbol is a little old-style e written over 
the letter. Compare Göthe to Goethe.

Avraham