Hi! Another way :
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import unicodedata def test_ascii(struni): strasc=unicodedata.normalize('NFD', struni).encode('ascii','replace') if len(struni)==len(strasc): return True else: return False print test_ascii(u"abcde") print test_ascii(u"abcdĂȘ") @-salutations -- Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list