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pythontype-conversionasciiextended-ascii

Extended ASCII Character Conversion

How can I convert Extended ASCII characters such as: "æ, ö or ç" into non-extended ASCII characters (a,o,c) using python? The way it works should be that if it takes "A, Æ ,Ä" as input, It returns A for all of them.

Solution

  • Unidecode might be of use to you.

    Python 3.2.3 (default, Jun  8 2012, 05:36:09) 
[GCC 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5)] on linux2
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>>> from unidecode import unidecode
>>> unidecode("æ, ö or ç")
'ae, o or c'