Help with character encodings

[Gary Herron]

A_H wrote:
> Help!
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> I've scraped a PDF file for text and all the minus signs come back as
> u'\xad'.
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> Is there any easy way I can change them all to plain old ASCII '-' ???
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> str.replace complained about a missing codec.
>
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> Hints?
>   

Encoding it into a 'latin1' encoded string seems to work:

  >>> print u'\xad'.encode('latin1')
  -




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