On Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:58:26 -0400 (EDT) Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2024-06-03, Edward Teach via Python-list <python-list@python.org> > wrote: > > > The Gutenburg Project publishes "plain text". That's another > > problem, because "plain text" means UTF-8....and that means > > unicode...and that means running some sort of unicode-to-ascii > > conversion in order to get something like "words". A couple of > > hours....a couple of hundred lines of C....problem solved! > > I'm curious. Why does it need to be converted frum Unicode to ASCII? > > When you read it into Python, it gets converted right back to > Unicode... > > > Well.....when using the file linux.words as a useful master list of "words".....linux.words is strict ASCII........ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
