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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:23:41 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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Subject: Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii
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On 2013-10-28 07:01, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
>> Simply ignoring diactrics won't get you very far.
>=20
> Right. As an example, these four French words :
> cote, c=C3=B4te, cot=C3=A9, c=C3=B4t=C3=A9 .

Distinct words with distinct meanings, sure.

But when a na=C3=AFve (naive? =E2=98=BA) person or one without the easy abi=
lity
to enter characters with diacritics searches for "cote", I want to
return possible matches containing any of your 4 examples.  It's
slightly fuzzier if they search for "cot=C3=A9", in which case they may
mean "cot=C3=A9" or they might mean be unable to figure out how to
add a hat and want to type "c=C3=B4t=C3=A9". Though I'd rather get more
results, even if it has some that only match fuzzily.

Circumflexually-circumspectly-yers,

-tkc