On Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:53:13 PM UTC-7, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 09/13/12 18:36, Terry Reedy wrote:
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> > On 9/13/2012 5:26 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
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> >> I've got a bunch of text in Portuguese and to transmit them, need to
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> >> have them in us-ascii (7-bit). I'd like to keep as much information
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> >> as possible,just stripping accents, cedillas, tildes, etc.
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> >
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> > 'keep as much information as possible' would mean an effectively
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> > lossless transliteration, which you could do with a dict.
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> > {<o-with-accent>: 'o', <c-cedilla>: 'c,' (or pick something that would
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> > never occur in normal text of the sort you are transmitting), ...}
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>
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> Vlastimil's solution kept the characters but stripped them of their
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> accents/tildes/cedillas/etc, doing just what I wanted, all using the
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> stdlib. Hard to do better than that :-)
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>
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> -tkc
How about using UTF-7 for transmission and decode on the other end? This keeps
the transmission all 7-bit, and no loss.
>>> s=u"serviço móvil".encode('utf-7')
>>> print s
servi+AOc-o m+APM-vil
>>> print s.decode('utf-7')
serviço móvil
-Mark
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