[Tutor] unicode mapping doesn't work

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi,

I want to substitute some letters with accents with theire non-accented equivalents. It should be easy, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

trans = {}
funnychars = u"éèêëóòôöáàâäÉÈÊËÓÒÔÖÁÀÂÄ"
asciichars = "eeeeooooaaaaEEEEOOOOAAAA"
for f, a in zip(funnychars, asciichars):
    trans.update({f: a})
print funnychars.translate(trans) # why doesn't this return the letters without accents?

Cheers!!

Albert-Jan



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