Text::Unaccent is a module that remove accents from a string. unac_string converts the input string from the specified charset to UTF-16 and call unac_string_utf16 to return the unaccented equivalent. The conversion from and to UTF-16 is done with iconv(1). Author: Loic Dachary WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Unaccent/