Re: Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a string

silverburgh.meryl@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a
string?
Let say I have a string in python (which is utf8 encoded), is there a
python function which I can convert that to a string which composed of
only ascii characters?

I'd recommend to rethink this approach.
In the worst case the result is an empty string... ;-)

Ciao, Michael.
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