unicode to ascii converting

[Peter Wilkinson]

Thanks for the help,

I have got it working the problem was that I was not reading into the 
string as unicode.

Peter

At 04:22 AM 8/7/2004, Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non wrote:
>Sorry !
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>The COMPLETE script is :
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>         # -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
>         aa = u"ä"
>         aa.encode("ascii","ignore")
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