In UTF8, \u0141 is a capital L with a little dash through it as can be seen in this image: http://static.peterbe.com/lukasz.png
I tried this: >>> import unicodedata >>> unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', u'\u0141').encode('ascii','ignore') '' I was hoping it would convert it it 'L' because that's what it visually looks like. And I've seen it becoming a normal ascii L before in other programs such as Thunderbird. I also tried the other forms: 'NFC', 'NFKC', 'NFD', and 'NFKD' but none of them helped. What am I doing wrong? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list