Re: [Tutor] local day names in ascii

2006-06-19 Thread lists 
Reply to anush badii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06-06-19 08:52:

> Why don't you use the extended ASCII characters where Swedish characters are
> included.

Not to be be picky but "extended ASCII" isn't a character set and have never
been. He should be using ISO-8859-1 (or as it's sometimes called Latin 1).

jem

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Re: [Tutor] local day names in ascii

2006-06-19 Thread anush badii 
Why don't you use the extended ASCII characters where Swedish characters are included. 
 
On 6/19/06, frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello List,i am trying to convert local Swedish daynames to ASCII"Måndag" should become "Mandag""Lördag" should become "Lordag""Söndag" should become "Sondag" 
here is my sessionimport localelocale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'sv_Se')datetime.date(2006, 06, 19).strftime("%A")'M\xc3\xa5ndag'datetime.date(2006, 06, 19).strftime("%A").decode('utf8').encode('ascii','ignore') 
'Mndag'Somehow, the Swedish character "å" gets dropped in the conversion to ascii. how can I accomplish the conversion 'å' --> 'a' etc.? should I use a dictionary?thanks for any insight
 
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Re: [Tutor] local day names in ascii

2006-06-19 Thread Andre Roberge 
May I suggest you look at this
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/251871
including the comments.  (The last comment in particular looks intriguing...)

André

On 6/19/06, frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello List,
> i am trying to convert local Swedish daynames to ASCII
>
> "Måndag" should become "Mandag"
> "Lördag" should become "Lordag"
> "Söndag" should become "Sondag"
>
> here is my session
>
> import locale
> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'sv_Se')
> datetime.date(2006, 06, 19).strftime("%A")
> 'M\xc3\xa5ndag'
> datetime.date(2006, 06,
> 19).strftime("%A").decode('utf8').encode('ascii','ignore')
> 'Mndag'
>
> Somehow, the Swedish character "å" gets dropped in the conversion to ascii.
> how can I accomplish the conversion 'å' --> 'a' etc.? should I use a
> dictionary?
> thanks for any insight
>  -frank
>
>
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