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> That works, but my be there is a more intelligent way? Especially there
> could be much more r.replace to handle all the accents as ^ =C2=B0 =C2=B4=
 ` and so on.

Perhaps this? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/816285/where-is-pythons-be=
st-ascii-for-this-unicode-database

There is also a rather long-ish recent topic on a similar topic that
might be worth scanning as well.

I've no direct/recent experience with this topic. I'm just an
interested bystander.

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