title: How to strip vowels/nekudot/diacritics from hebrew utf-8 in ruby?
body: <p>Hebrew prints vowels as nekudot/points around the letters. <br>
  with vowels: " יִתְגַּבֵּר כַּאֲרִי לַעֲמֹד בַּבֹּקֶר לַעֲבוֹדַת בּוֹרְאוֹ שֶׁיְּהֵא הוּא מְעוֹרֵר הַשַּׁחַר" <br>
  without vowels: "יתגב כארי לעמוד בבקר לעבודת בוראו שיהא הוא מעורר השחר"</p>
  
  <p>I need a way to strip these vowels from a string. As in convert the string, with vowels, to the string, without vowels. Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>-p.s.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried "hebrew.gsub(/[^א-ת]/, '')"
  but this has two problems: a: this will remove all punctuation, english, etc. I only want to remove the vowels. b: some letters get removed as well. (my understanding is limited, but it seems some letters/vowel combinations become "multibyte" in utf-8 and will not match "א-ת".</p>
  
  <p>I found this:<a href="https://gist.github.com/yakovsh/345a71d841871cc3d375" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gist.github.com/yakovsh/345a71d841871cc3d375</a> online, but the ruby suggestion only works with rails, (assuming it works at all).
  However, perhaps that page can be helpful in finding a solution.</p>
  
  <p>Please help, thanks in advance.</p>