hard_decoding

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tamas> Do you have a convinient, easy way to remove special charachters
    Tamas> from u'strings'?

    Tamas> Replacing:
    Tamas> ÀÁÂÃÄÅ 	=> A
    ... etc ...

See if my latscii codec works for you:

    http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/latscii.py

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