UTF8 Problem

[jcrombez]

"France, Île de france, Paris, Champs-Élysées"

become

"/france/le-de-france/paris/champs-lyses"

instead of

"/france/ile-de-france/paris/champs-elysees

[abelards]

Hi, I've submitted #4
Let me know if that works.
I hate encodings as much as everyone else, make sure everything is set up correctly.

I'm more a GetText-guy than Rails-I18N but at least this solution will let you set up custom transliterations:
http://apidock.com/rails/v3.2.13/ActiveSupport/Inflector/transliterate