On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:59:01 +0100, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > 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.
It may not be to store or even use the actual text. I stumbled on a problem like this some time ago: I had some code building an index for a document and wanted the entries starting with "e", "é", "è" or "ê" to be in the same section... -- python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-'])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
