trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Oct 27 05:21:26 EDT 2013
On 27/10/2013 01:11, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.1626.1382835129.18130.python-list at python.org>,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> Compared to Baudot, both ASCII and EBCDIC were probably considered
>> wondrous.
>
> Wonderous, indeed. Why would anybody ever need more than one case of
> the alphabet? It's almost as absurd as somebody wanting to put funny
> little marks on top of their vowels.
>
True indeed but it gets worse. For example those silly Spanish speaking
types consider this ñ a letter in its own right and not a funny little
mark on top of a consonant :)
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