[OpenTAL-checkins] opental/pax utils.py

[Fernando Lalo Martins]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/opental
Module name:    opental
Branch:         
Changes by:     Fernando Lalo Martins <address@hidden>  03/08/26 17:50:24

Modified files:
        pax            : utils.py 

Log message:
        adding an unicode2ascii() function that might come in handy

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/opental/opental/pax/utils.py.diff?tr1=1.12&tr2=1.13&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: opental/pax/utils.py
diff -u opental/pax/utils.py:1.12 opental/pax/utils.py:1.13
--- opental/pax/utils.py:1.12   Mon Apr 14 18:13:02 2003
+++ opental/pax/utils.py        Tue Aug 26 17:50:24 2003
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 from backwards_compatibility import *
 from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
-import sys, types
+import sys, types, unicodedata
 
 _replace='replace'
 
@@ -62,3 +62,17 @@
     psyco.bind(pack_list)
 except:
     pass
+
+def unicode2ascii(unistr):
+    l = []
+    for c in unistr:
+        d = unicodedata.decomposition(c)
+        if d:
+            for e in d.split():
+                e = int(e, 16)
+                if 65 <= e <= 122:
+                    l.append(chr(e))
+        else:
+            if ord(c) < 128:
+                l.append(str(c))
+    return ''.join(l)