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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:26:07 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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I've got a bunch of text in Portuguese and to transmit them, need to
have them in us-ascii (7-bit).  I'd like to keep as much information
as possible, just stripping accents, cedillas, tildes, etc.  So
"serviço móvil" becomes "servico movil".  Is there anything stock
that I've missed?  I can do mystring.encode('us-ascii', 'replace')
but that doesn't keep as much information as I'd hope.

-tkc