#ASCII, Dammit

All credit goes to Leonard Richardson. I've just put this thing on github.

Stupid library to turn MS chars (like smart quotes) and ISO-Latin chars into ASCII, dammit. Will do plain text approximations, or more accurate HTML representations. Can also be jiggered to just fix the smart quotes and leave the rest of ISO-Latin alone.

##Usage french = '\x93Sacr\xe9 bleu!\x93' print asciiDammit(french) #"Sacre bleu!" print htmlDammit(french) #“Sacré bleu!“

	print demoronise(french) #"Sacr� bleu!"
	print htmlDammit(french, 1) #“Sacr� bleu!“

	frenchu = u'sacré bleu'
	print asciiDammit(frenchu) #sacre bleu

	dejavu = u'Déjà Vu'
	print asciiDammit(dejavu) #Deja Vu

##Sources: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin1/all.html http://www.webreference.com/html/reference/character/isolat1.html

• 1.0 Initial Release (2004-11-28)
• 1.1 Fixed handling of unicode strings (2012-01-15) - Tom Najdek

##License The author hereby irrevocably places this work in the public domain. To the extent that this statement does not divest the copyright, the copyright holder hereby grants irrevocably to every recipient all rights in this work otherwise reserved under copyright.