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Converting Some French Chars With Python

09.07.2005

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        because translate and maketrans don't love utf-8 ;-(

    import string
    french=u"15 rÃ©sultats trouvÃ©s".encode("utf_16")
    
    sfrom = u"Ã Ã¢Ã¤Ã©Ã¨ÃªÃ«Ã¯Ã®Ã´Ã¶Ã»Ã¹Ã¼Ã§".encode("utf_16")
    sto   = u"aaaeeeeiioouuuc".encode("utf_16")
    print french.translate( string.maketrans(sfrom,sto) )

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