Plugins - Unicode hacks
Add to favoritesUsed in quite some projects with success. Will allow you to process Unicode strings with the #chars accessor and will normalize all incoming text data to NFKC.
http://julik.nl/code/unicode-hacks/index.html
http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/unicode_hacks/
Rails' (MIT)
Internationalization
