hbb"Visually similar" Unicode to Windows-1252 conversion

Hi,
I'm using htmldoc (http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) to convert HTML files
to PDF. Unfortunately, this software does not support Unicode, so I have
to encode my strings as Windows-1252. To avoid errors, I've using the
"replace" mode s.encode('cp1252', 'replace'). This does a "strict"
conversion in that say U+2013 (En Dash) is replaced by a question mark.
What I'd really like is a "visual approximation" conversion, so U+2013
would be replaced by an ASCII minus sign.
Now, I know Windows can do this. Using the ANSI version of wxPython, if
you enter unicode characters into a text box, this conversion is done
before the non-unicode string is returned. So, how can I access that
same conversion from Python?
Any help would be much appreciated. Also, if anyone knows another forum
I could try asking in, that'd help too.
Paul
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