How to convert letters with accents, umlauts, etc to their ASCII counterparts in Perl?
Solution 1:
As usual, if you think of a problem which most certainly is not yours only, there's already a solution on CPAN. ) In this case it's called Text::Unidecode
use warnings;
use strict;
use utf8;
use Text::Unidecode;
print unidecode('ä, ö, ü, é'); # will print 'a, o, u, e'
Solution 2:
Text::Unidecode
See the many disclaimers, but it's probably just what you need if you just have Latin text with diacritics.
Solution 3:
use s/// (=Search&Replace) instead of m// (=Match)
e.g. $name =~ s/\x00c0/A/g;