crowell> However, I'd like to see the more sensible "Bela Fleck" instead
crowell> of dropping '\xe9' entirely.
Assuming the data are in latin-1 or can be converted to it, try my latscii
codec:
http://orca.mojam.com/~skip/python/latscii.py
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> The trick is finding the right . Has someone attempted this
> before, or am I stuck writing my own solution?
In this specific example, there is a different approach, using
the Unicode character database:
def strip_combining(s):
import unicodedata
# Expand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm using the ID3 tag of an mp3 file to query musicbrainz to get their
> sort-name for the artist. A simple example is "The Beatles" ->
> MusicBrainz -> "Beatles, The". I then want to rename the mp3 file
> using this information. However, I would like the filename to c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The trick is finding the right . Has someone attempted this
> before, or am I stuck writing my own solution?
You want ASCII, Dammit: http://www.crummy.com/cgi-bin/msm/map.cgi/ASCII
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I'm using the ID3 tag of an mp3 file to query musicbrainz to get their
sort-name for the artist. A simple example is "The Beatles" ->
MusicBrainz -> "Beatles, The". I then want to rename the mp3 file
using this information. However, I would like the filename to contain
only ascii characters, whi
