Re: How to convert 'ö' to 'oe' or 'o' (or other si =?utf-8?Q?milar_things)_in_a_string??=
* Terry Reedy (Sun, 18 Sep 2016 03:51:40 -0400) > > On 9/18/2016 2:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > It doesn't matter whether you call them "accent" like most people do, or > > "diacritics" as linguists do. > > I am a native born American and I have never before heard or seen > non-accent diacritic marks called 'accents'. Accents indicate stress. > Other diacritics indicate other pronunciation changes. It is > counterproductive to confuse the two groups. Spanish, for instance, has > vowel accents that change which syllable gets stressed. A tilda is not > an accent; rather, it softens the pronunciation of 'n' to 'ny', as in > 'canyon'. Had to be said. Nothing to add. Thorsten -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to convert 'ö' to 'oe' or 'o' (or other si =?utf-8?Q?milar_things)_in_a_string??=
* Martin Schöön (17 Sep 2016 20:20:12 GMT) > > Den 2016-09-17 skrev Kouli: > > Hello, try the Unidecode module - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode. > > > > Kouli > > > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> Hi, I want to convert strings in which the characters with accents > >> should be converted to the ones without accents. Here is my current > >> code. > > Side note from Sweden. Å, ä and ö are not accented characters in our > language. They are characters of their own. I think he meant diacritics. Thorsten -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list