Peter Bulychev wrote:
Hello.
I want to convert unicode character into ascii one.
The method ".encode('ASCII') " can convert only those unicode
characters, which fit into 0..128 range.
But there are still lots of characters beyond this range, which can be
manually converted to some visibly similar ascii characters. For
instance, there are several quotation marks in unicode, which can be
converted into ascii quotation mark.
Can this conversion be performed in automatic manner? After googling
I've only found that there exists Unicode database, which stores
human-readable information on notation of all unicode characters
(ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt). And there also
exists the Python adapter for this database
(http://docs.python.org/lib/module-unicodedata.html). Using this
database I can do something like `if
notation.find('QUOTATION')!=-1:\n\treturn "'"`. I believe there is more
elegant way. Am I right?
I believe you will have to make up your own translation dictionary for
the translations *you* want. You should then be able to use that with
the .translate() method.
tjr
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