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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:54:22 -0500
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On 09/13/12 18:36, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 9/13/2012 5:26 PM, 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.
> 
> 'keep as much information as possible' would mean an effectively 
> lossless transliteration, which you could do with a dict.
> {<o-with-accent>: 'o', <c-cedilla>: 'c,' (or pick something that would 
> never occur in normal text of the sort you are transmitting), ...}

Vlastimil's solution kept the characters but stripped them of their
accents/tildes/cedillas/etc, doing just what I wanted, all using the
stdlib.  Hard to do better than that :-)

-tkc