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 <loic@senga.org>
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Unaccent/
