Top Level Namespace

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Alphabet, NameQuery, Variant

Constant Summary collapse

Abc =

add convenience aliases - also add Alpha - why? why not?

Alphabet
Alphabets = 
Alphabet
Alpha = 
Alphabet

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#downcase_i18n(name) ⇒ Object

add “global” convenience helper



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# File 'lib/alphabets.rb', line 23

def downcase_i18n( name )
  Alphabet.downcase_i18n( name )
end

#pp ⇒ Object

note - pp now part of ruby core since version ???

check no longer required!!!



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# File 'lib/alphabets.rb', line 4

require 'pp'

#unaccent(name) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/alphabets.rb', line 27

def unaccent( name )
  Alphabet.unaccent( name )   ## using "default" language character mapping / table
end

#undiacritic(name) ⇒ Object

alias for unaccent



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# File 'lib/alphabets.rb', line 31

def undiacritic( name ) unaccent( name ); end

#variants(name) ⇒ Object

todo/check: rename to unaccent_variants or unaccent_names - why? why not?



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# File 'lib/alphabets.rb', line 35

def variants( name )    ## todo/check: rename to unaccent_variants or unaccent_names - why? why not?
  Variant.find( name )
end