What unicode character has a certain value?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Gerhard Haering <gerhard.haering at gmx.de> writes:

> > a unicode string to an ascii string (if possible);
> 
> .encode(encoding, conflict_strategy=None)
> 
> for example: u"foobar".encode("utf-16")

Of course, if it is really ASCII (American Standard Code for
Information Interchange) that is desired, it is always

  u"foobar".encode("ascii")

Regards,
Martin