[Pythonmac-SIG] MacASCII to ISO-Latin conversion

[Oliver Wrede]

Hello.

This may be a FAQ, but I did not find any hint on this subject.

I have the problem with Mac users typing special chars into an browser
textarea to enter text into a UNIX based database.

The ASCII code which is stored in the database is mac-ascii, which causes
problems when processing the information in the database.

I need a possibility in python to convert mac text to iso-latin and back so
every text insterted into the database is clean ISO-Latin format.

I looked at string.maketrans() and string.translate() in the Python
Documentation, but I am not sure how to use these...


Oliver




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