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Re:Hnweekly: weekly top stories from Hacker News by delano on Friday December 26, 2008 @10:04AM (#410185)
In that case, it should replace ö with o, etc.
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Re:Hnweekly: weekly top stories from Hacker News by rtw on Friday December 26, 2008 @11:54AM (#410255)
I have a screenscraping thing in place that targets an ASCII only environment (LambdaMOO mud). Manually replacing unicode stuff like this has been a pain in the butt. Luckily that was all just for fun and didn't need to be perfect.

Is there a good library out there (in any language) that does good unicode --> ASCII substitutions for major languages?

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Re:Hnweekly: weekly top stories from Hacker News by xtimesninety on Friday December 26, 2008 @12:05PM (#410265)
I once used latin1_to_ascii (The Unicode Hammer) in python: (works great) http://code.activestate.com/recipes/251871/
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Re:Hnweekly: weekly top stories from Hacker News by rtw on Friday December 26, 2008 @12:33PM (#410286)
Awesome thanks. Two coincidences: this fun mud thing is in Python (works via RPC)... and the entry method name is "hammer," heh.
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