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), ...}
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