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Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code

Date 2013-10-19 11:14 -0300
From Zero Piraeus <z@etiol.net>
Subject Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:19:12AM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Make no mistake, this sort of simple-minded stripping of accents and 
> diacritics is an extremely ham-fisted thing to do.

I used to live on a street called Calle Colón, so I'm aware of the
dangers of stripping diacritics:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colón
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon

... although in that particular case, there's a degree of poetic justice
in confusing Cristóbal Colón / Cristopher Columbus with the back end of
a digestive tract:

  http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

Joking aside, there is a legitimate use for asciifying text in this way:
creating unambiguous identifiers.

For example, a miscreant may create the username 'míguel' in order to
pose as another user 'miguel', relying on other users inattentiveness.
Asciifying is one way of reducing the risk of that.

 -[]z.

-- 
Zero Piraeus: in ictu oculi
http://etiol.net/pubkey.asc

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Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code caldwellinva@gmail.com - 2013-10-18 13:45 -0700
  Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Zero Piraeus <z@etiol.net> - 2013-10-18 19:02 -0300
  Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-19 09:19 +0000
    Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Zero Piraeus <z@etiol.net> - 2013-10-19 11:14 -0300
      Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-19 11:10 -0400
        Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 08:26 -0700
      Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-19 16:16 +0000
        Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-19 09:49 -0700
          Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 09:10 +1100
            Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-19 21:52 -0400
              Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 13:09 +1100
                Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-19 22:13 -0400
                Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-20 13:26 +1100
                Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 13:29 +1100
                Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-20 10:11 +0100
  Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-19 08:28 -0400
  Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code caldwellinva@gmail.com - 2013-10-19 05:50 -0700

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