On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:26:07 -0500, 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).
That could mean two things: 1) "The receiver is incapable of dealing with Unicode in 2012, which is frankly appalling, but what can I do about it?" 2) "The transport mechanism I use to transmit the data is only capable of dealing with 7-bit ASCII strings, which is sad but pretty much standard." In the case of 1), I suggest you look at the Unicode Hammer, a.k.a. "The Stupid American": http://code.activestate.com/recipes/251871 and especially the very many useful comments. In the case of 2), just binhex or uuencode your data for transport. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
