convert unicode characters to visibly similar ascii characters

[Ben Finney]

Jim <jim.hefferon at gmail.com> writes:

> I don't like the spacing in [PEP 8], personally.

Nevertheless, your Python code will be much less effort to read by
others (and yourself in future) if it is written in conformance with
PEP 8.

Writing all your Python code to conform with that standard is the
simplest step you can take to ensure that your code won't cause other
Python programmers undue reading effort.

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Ben Finney