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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 27/10/2013 01:11, 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.
>

True indeed but it gets worse.  For example those silly Spanish speaking 
types consider this ñ a letter in its own right and not a funny little 
mark on top of a consonant :)

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Mark Lawrence