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Subject: Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:11:55 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>> In article <mailman.1626.1382835129.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>>  Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Compared to Baudot, both ASCII and EBCDIC were probably considered
>>> wondrous.
>>
>> Wonderous, indeed.  Why would anybody ever need more than one case of
>> the alphabet?  It's almost as absurd as somebody wanting to put funny
>> little marks on top of their vowels.
>
> Vwls? Wh wst tm wrtng dwn th vwls?

There&apos;s really no reason to&#59; you can always provide them by
their entities&#33;

ChrisA