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

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/30/2013 12:08 PM, wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:

>  From a unicode perspective.
> Unicode.org "knows", these chars a very important, that's
> the reason why they exist in two forms, precomposed and
> composed forms.

Only some chars have both forms. I believe the precomposed forms are 
partly a historical accident of what precomposed forms were in the 
various latin-1 sets.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy