: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:19:12AM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Make no mistake, this sort of simple-minded stripping of accents and > diacritics is an extremely ham-fisted thing to do.
I used to live on a street called Calle Colón, so I'm aware of the dangers of stripping diacritics: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colón https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon ... although in that particular case, there's a degree of poetic justice in confusing Cristóbal Colón / Cristopher Columbus with the back end of a digestive tract: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day Joking aside, there is a legitimate use for asciifying text in this way: creating unambiguous identifiers. For example, a miscreant may create the username 'míguel' in order to pose as another user 'miguel', relying on other users inattentiveness. Asciifying is one way of reducing the risk of that. -[]z. -- Zero Piraeus: in ictu oculi http://etiol.net/pubkey.asc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
