I was thinking of using first Unidecode and then the "hammer" and of course it's already there, included in pylons ! Thanks a lot to the three of you for your very quick answers !
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: >> My favorite is http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode >> >> It does transliteration, so for example it knows something about the ASCII >> that sounds like Chinese characters. >> >> It won't help you convert spaces to hyphens. > > webhelpers.text.urlify(string) > > Create a URI-friendly representation of the string > > Can be called manually in order to generate an URI-friendly > version of any string. > > If the unidecode package is installed, it will also transliterate > non-ASCII Unicode characters to their nearest pronounciation > equivalent in ASCII. > > Examples:: > > >>> urlify("Mighty Mighty Bosstones") > 'mighty-mighty-bosstones' > > > webhelpers.text.remove_formatting(string) > > Simplify HTML text by removing tags and several kinds of formatting. > > If the unidecode package is installed, it will also transliterate > non-ASCII Unicode characters to their nearest pronunciation equivalent > in ASCII. > > http://webhelpers.groovie.org/modules/text.html > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > -- Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
