Nice unicode -> ascii translation?

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    crowell> However, I'd like to see the more sensible "Bela Fleck" instead
    crowell> of dropping '\xe9' entirely.  

Assuming the data are in latin-1 or can be converted to it, try my latscii
codec:

    http://orca.mojam.com/~skip/python/latscii.py

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