Hi,
I'm trying to validate the uniqueness of a value that has accented characters (á, é, í, etc) and need rails to treat them as the original letters (a, e, i).
For example, if a user tries to register himself using last name "Perez", but there's already a record with the last name "Pérez", I need the validate function to treat these two words as the same, thus avoiding 'duplicated' records on the table. I'm using utf8_unicode_ci for both table and column in mysql database.
Does anyone has experience validating_uniqueness_of values with accented characters?