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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:44:18 +0200
Subject: Re: Least-lossy string.encode to us-ascii?
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2012/9/13 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>:
> 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
> "servi=E7o m=F3vil" 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
>


Hi,
would something like the following be enough for your needs?
Unfortunately, I can't check it reliably with regard to Portuguese.

>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.normalize("NFD", u"servi=E7o m=F3vil").encode("ascii", "ign=
ore").decode("ascii")
u'servico movil'
>>>

There is also "Unidecode", but I haven't used it myself sofar...
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode/

hth,
  vbr