Converting from UTF-8 to ASCII for gecos field.

Greetings.

Can anyone suggest a good way of converting a string from UTF-8 to IA5
(ASCII) for the gecos attribute. For example, I have the hypotheical
user Ërïç Cärtmân, with a lot of accented characters in his name
converting his name to ASCII using this code:

my $gecos = encode('ascii', $cn);

Turns it into this ugly mess:

gecos: ?r?? C?rtm?n

Anyone know of any decent perl functions that could turn it into
something more readable, like "Eric Cartman"?

Trying to setup regular expressions would be a nightmare.


-- 
Prentice

• Converting from UTF-8 to ASCII for gecos field. by Prentice Bisbal
• Re: [Net::LDAP] Converting from UTF-8 to ASCII for gecos field. by Peter Karman
• Re: Converting from UTF-8 to ASCII for gecos field. by Graham Barr
• Re: Converting from UTF-8 to ASCII for gecos field. by Prentice Bisbal