rails3: replace iconv with transliterate

Victor Costa
1 parent 693f2001
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app/helpers/tags_helper.rb
@@ -41,15 +41,11 @@ module TagsHelper
     max = tags.values.max.to_f
     min = tags.values.min.to_f
  
-    # Uses iconv to translate utf8 strings to ascii.
-    # If can't translate a character, ignore it.
-    require 'iconv'
-    utf8_to_ascii = Iconv.new("ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE","UTF8")
     # Sorts first based on translated strings and then, if they are equal, based on the original form.
     # This way variant characters falls on the same level as their base characters and don't end up
     # at the end of the tag list.
     # Example: AA ÁA AB Z instead of AA AB Z ÁA
-    tags.collect{ |k,v| [utf8_to_ascii.iconv(k).downcase, [k,v]] }.sort.collect { |ascii, t| t }.map do |tag,count|
+    tags.collect{ |k,v| [ActiveSupport::Inflector.transliterate(k).downcase, [k,v]] }.sort.collect { |ascii, t| t }.map do |tag,count|
       if ( max == min )
         v = 0.5
       else
...	...	@@ -41,15 +41,11 @@ module TagsHelper
41	41	max = tags.values.max.to_f
42	42	min = tags.values.min.to_f
43	43
44		- # Uses iconv to translate utf8 strings to ascii.
45		- # If can't translate a character, ignore it.
46		- require 'iconv'
47		- utf8_to_ascii = Iconv.new("ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE","UTF8")
48	44	# Sorts first based on translated strings and then, if they are equal, based on the original form.
49	45	# This way variant characters falls on the same level as their base characters and don't end up
50	46	# at the end of the tag list.
51	47	# Example: AA ÁA AB Z instead of AA AB Z ÁA
52		- tags.collect{ \|k,v\| [utf8_to_ascii.iconv(k).downcase, [k,v]] }.sort.collect { \|ascii, t\| t }.map do \|tag,count\|
	48	+ tags.collect{ \|k,v\| [ActiveSupport::Inflector.transliterate(k).downcase, [k,v]] }.sort.collect { \|ascii, t\| t }.map do \|tag,count\|
53	49	if ( max == min )
54	50	v = 0.5
55	51	else
...	...