http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/Unidecode.lua http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/Unidecode A frivolous port of Sean M. Burke's Text::Unidecode: http://interglacial.com/~sburke/tpj/as_html/tpj22.html http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Text-Unidecode-0.04/lib/Text/Unidecode.pm Usage example: local Unidecode = require( 'Unidecode' ) print( Unidecode( 'Москва́' ) ) print( Unidecode( '北京' ) ) print( Unidecode( 'Ἀθηνᾶ' ) ) print( Unidecode( '서울' ) ) print( Unidecode( '東京' ) ) print( Unidecode( '京都市' ) ) print( Unidecode( 'नेपाल' ) ) print( Unidecode( 'תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ' ) ) print( Unidecode( 'تَلْ أَبِيبْ يَافَا' ) ) print( Unidecode( 'تهران' ) ) print( Unidecode( 'Géometrie Différentielle' ) ) > Moskva > Bei Jing > Athena > seoul > Dong Jing > Jing Du Shi > nepaal > te'labiyb-yapvo > tal 'abiyb yafa > thrn > Geometrie Differentielle