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Hi,

I need to convert a unicode string to ASCII. I can simply use getbytes
method to do that but i would use some characters since Unicode is
16bit.
But i thought there might be some way to convert characters like "ü"
to "u" or, "å" to "a".
Or a chance i can find a conversation table?

Thanks.

Mar 21 '06 #1
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msnd article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

If your doing this for the sake of calling a legacy dll ther is a
better way.

-dm

Mar 22 '06 #2
Actuly,

I'd be interested to know if anybody can solve this problem using a
single regular expression.

-dm

Mar 22 '06 #3
ASCII is limited to 7 bits being bytes vales 0 to 127 inclusive.

If none of your Unicode characters have a value greater than 255 then you
can use ANSI or UTF8.

If any of your Unicode characters have a value greater than 255 then you are
stuck with using Unicode.
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Hi,

I need to convert a unicode string to ASCII. I can simply use getbytes
method to do that but i would use some characters since Unicode is
16bit.
But i thought there might be some way to convert characters like "ü"
to "u" or, "å" to "a".
Or a chance i can find a conversation table?

Thanks.
Mar 22 '06 #4
Stephany Young <noone@localhos t> wrote:
ASCII is limited to 7 bits being bytes vales 0 to 127 inclusive.
Yes.
If none of your Unicode characters have a value greater than 255 then you
can use ANSI or UTF8.

If any of your Unicode characters have a value greater than 255 then you are
stuck with using Unicode.


No, not really. For one thing, the various ANSI encodings don't just
map 0-255 to Unicode 0-255 - it's quite possible to have a string which
includes Unicode characters > 255 but which can still be correctly
encoded in a particular ANSI encoding.

Furthermore, UTF-8 can cope with *all* Unicode characters. Non-ASCII
characters are encoded to more than one byte, but they're still encoded
properly...

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