[Tutor] Fixing "nearly ASCII" data file?

[John Krukoff]

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:34 -0700, Allen Fowler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have some CSV data from Office / OpenOffice in "nearly ASCII" format.  This is just basic text but it it stored as UTF-8, and has curly quotes, etc.
> 
> Is there a way to easily read the file as ASCII by forcing these to the standard ASCII equivalents?
> 
> Thank you

I found this library "ASCII, Dammit", from the author of Beautiful Soup,
to be a good starting point when I had to write my own force to ASCII
conversion routine, maybe it'll work for you too:

http://www.crummy.com/cgi-bin/msm/map.cgi/ASCII%2C+Dammit

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John Krukoff <jkrukoff at ltgc.com>
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