convert unicode characters to visibly similar ascii characters

[Laszlo Nagy]

Peter Bulychev wrote:
> Thank you for you answer.
>
>     If you only want this to work for a subset, please define that subset.
>
> Actually, I want to convert only punctuations (dots, commas, hyphens 
> and so on).
Then make your translation table manually and apply this method:

unicode.translate

Finally

print s.encode('ascii')

If you get an UnicodeEncodeError then it means you had other (not 
translated, non-ascii) characters in the original string.

Best,

   Laszlo