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Re: Least-lossy string.encode to us-ascii?

Date 2012-09-13 15:29 -0700
From Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Subject Re: Least-lossy string.encode to us-ascii?
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[sorry for the direct reply, Tim]

Tim Chase wrote:
> 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.

I haven't yet used it myself, but I've heard good things about
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode/

~Ethan~

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