In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why do you want to strip off accents? The history of communication > has several examples of significant difference in meaning caused by > minute differences in punctuation or accents including one of which you > may have heard: a will that could be read (in part) as either "a chacun > d'eux million francs" or "a chacun deux million francs" with the > remainder to a 3rd party.
The difference there, though, is a punctuation character, not an accent. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list