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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor