Fix Rails 8.1 deprecation

[stanley90]

Remove deprecated call of mb_chars.
Not sure if we should check the Rails version to ensure this gem still works with older versions?

[dblock]

The gem doesn't know anything about Rails AFAIK, but what breaks with an older version? Any way to write a test that shows it and run tests with older versions of rails?

[stanley90]

Yes the gem doesn't explicitly depend on Rails, but if I'm not mistaken, mb_chars exists only in ActiveSupport, so in reality it is a (undeclared) dependency.
Just checked that the next method in the call chain - unicode_normalize seems to exist since about Ruby 2.2, so either it's not really worth checking anything, or to make it super safe, the check could be something along:
text.to_s.respond_to?(:unicode_normalize) ? text.to_s.unicode_normalize : text.to_s.mb_chars.unicode_normalize

[dblock]

I think it's fine just removing it. Update CHANGELOG?

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[stanley90]

Thanks for merging. Can we get a release pls?

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