in reply to Removing Foreign Characters
If the idea is to convert the e acute, e grave, u umlaut etc to unaccented e, unaccented e, unaccented u respectively, I've looked for this before. I ended up with a large hash table in a subroutine - I don't think there's a standard module to do it.
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