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	Hi Norman

> Does anybody happen to have a mapping (or an algorithm) that will
> remove diacritical marks from strings?  I'd like to convert Jérôme to
> Jerome and that sort of thing.
	In the old days of Lua 4.0 I had a similar problem.  The code
(for Lua 4.0) is in:

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~tomas/mapa.lua

	I think it works in Lua 5.1, but have not tried to.  It is a
big table and some converter functions.
		Tomás