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require 'iconv'

class String
  def numeric?
    true if Float(self) rescue false
  end
  
  def to_ascii
    # from http://www.jroller.com/obie/tags/unicode
    converter = Iconv.new('ASCII//IGNORE//TRANSLIT', 'UTF-8') 
    converter.iconv(self).unpack('U*').select { |cp| cp < 127 }.pack('U*') rescue ""
  end
end

Version data entries

12 entries across 12 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
ankusa-0.0.16	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.15	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.14	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.13	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.12	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.11	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.10	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.9	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.8	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.7	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.6	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb
ankusa-0.0.5	lib/ankusa/extensions.rb