On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:41 PM, <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> "Is ♬ ♫ ♪ ♩ a melody or just noise?".encode('ascii', >>>> 'replace').decode('ascii') > 'Is ? ? ? ? a melody or just noise?' >>>> >>>> > > cp1252 analogy. > >>>> 'abc€€€'.encode('cp1252').decode('ascii', 'replace').encode('ascii', >>>> 'replace').decode('ascii') > 'abc???' >>>> > > Again, not a "unicode" question, more "how to handle strings in a judicious > way?"
I don't want a cp1252 analogy, I want the exact same thing implemented in cp1252. You said the same work could be done there. That work includes dealing with musical notes. How are you going to do that? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list