[Tutor] Working with Umlauts

[Tom Churm]

hi,

i need to replace umlauts in a string.  something that looks, very 
inelegantly, like this:

lastNameOfUser = string.replace(lastNameOfUser,"ä","ae")
lastNameOfUser = string.replace(lastNameOfUser,"ö","oe")
lastNameOfUser = string.replace(lastNameOfUser,"ü","ue")
lastNameOfUser = string.replace(lastNameOfUser,"ß","ss")
lastNameOfUser = string.replace(lastNameOfUser,"Ä","Ae")
lastNameOfUser = string.replace(lastNameOfUser,"Ö","Oe")
lastNameOfUser = string.replace(lastNameOfUser,"Ü","Ue")

but then i get the error that:
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

and i get this same error when i try to use:
string.replace(lastNameOfUser,chr(228),"ae") ## for 'ä'

there's gotta be a quick & easy solution for this, but i'm afraid i don't 
know what it is...

--tom





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