Message forwarded to the list for information. André ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 19, 2006 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] local day names in ascii To: Andre Roberge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
André, thank you so much for this spot-on pointer. the last comment indeed nails it. excellent!! -frank On 6/19/06, Andre Roberge < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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