Re: Unidecode - US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@...>]

Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:
>> print( Unidecode( '東京' ) )
>> print( Unidecode( '京都市' ) )
> ...
>>> Dong Jing
>>> Jing Du Shi
>
> That's pretty amusing...
>
> [Can it read LANG or something to avoid problems like this?]

Though, of course, even if it did, likely the results wouldn't be
correct 99% of the time anyway...

-Miles

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