encoding problems (é and è)

[Peter Otten]

John Machin wrote:

> 0x00d0: ord('D'), # Ð
> 0x00f0: ord('o'), # ð
> Icelandic capital eth becomes D, OK; but the small letter becomes o!!!

I see information flow from Iceland is a bit better than from Armenia :-)

> Some of the transformations are a little unfortunate :-(

The OP, as you pointed out in your first post in this thread, has more
pressing problems with his normalization approach. 

Lastly, even if all went well, turning a list of French addresses into an
ascii-uppercase graveyard would be a sad thing to do...

Peter