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

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> 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?

There's really no reason to; you can always provide them by
their entities!

ChrisA