trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii

Sat Oct 26 22:05:46 EDT 2013

On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:11:55 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

> In article <mailman.1626.1382835129.18130.python-list at python.org>,
>  Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>> Compared to Baudot, both ASCII and EBCDIC were probably considered
>> wondrous.
> 
> Wonderous, indeed.  Why would anybody ever need more than one case of
> the alphabet?  It's almost as absurd as somebody wanting to put funny
> little marks on top of their vowels.

Vwls? Wh wst tm wrtng dwn th vwls?

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Steven