On 9/13/2012 10:09 PM, Mark Tolonen wrote:
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:53:13 PM UTC-7, Tim Chase wrote:
On 09/13/12 18:36, Terry Reedy wrote:
'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
Vlastimil's solution kept the characters but stripped them of their
accents/tildes/cedillas/etc, doing just what I wanted, all using the
stdlib. Hard to do better than that :-)
You mean, hard to do better than what you think you want, as opposed to
what you said you wanted in both the subject line and the text line I
quoted. What you need depends on why you need ascii only text and what
the recipient will do with the ascii only text. Print it on an
ascii-only printer? Or something similar? If so, a lossy encoding may be
sufficient, but why not let the recipient decide to toss info?
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
Nice. I was barely aware of and forgot that option. This and similar
suggestions to use existing methods is much better than my hackish approach.
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