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Yeah, lots of Czech characters get omitted - anything with an accent on it. So this Na baště Svatého Jiří, 160 00 Prague-Prague 6, Czech Republic becomes this

• captainbenises 14y ago
  I'm using iconv to convert from utf-8 to ascii, but the transliteration isn't as complete as I'd like. :( Sorry it strips out prague addresses. I tried using utf-8 urls but I couldn't work out how to handle them in rails. Actually, looking at the search term you entered, I must have a bug, because the iconv output is correct, it definitely shouldn't be stripping letters out of the url.
  • jakobe 14y ago
    When converting from utf-8 to ascii with iconv, try specifying "ASCII//TRANSLIT" as target encoding to avoid removing foreign characters.
    • pornel 14y ago
      Your foreign characters are my native. UTF-8 is 20 years old now. Just use it already!
      • jakobe 13y ago
        Jeeze... do you really think that your native characters are a good idea to be used in an URL? Take this URL for example: http://archaeologie-ooe.info/orte/hoersching http://archaeologie-ooe.info/orte/hoersching I could have used UTF-8, and made the URL http://archäologie-oö.info/orte/hörsching http://archäologie-oö.info/orte/hörsching, but then all of the sudden 95% of the worlds population couldn't type that URL anymore.