NoAccent is a simple Ruby gem that helps in removing accents from text. It is particularly useful in handling strings with special characters.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'noaccent'

And then execute:

bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

gem install noaccent

Using NoAccent is straightforward:

require 'noaccent'

puts NoAccent.cut("Ōsaka") # => "Osaka"
puts "Ōsaka".cut_accent    # => "Osaka"

This gem is useful for removing accents from Vietnamese text:

NoAccent.cut 'Hoàng Sa Trường Sa là của Việt Nam!'
# => Hoang Sa Truong Sa la cua Viet Nam!

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/YutoYasunaga/noaccent.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.