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    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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    Paul Johnston wrote:
    Hi,

    I'm using htmldoc (http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) to convert HTML files
    to PDF. Unfortunately, this software does not support Unicode,

    What about UTF-8?

    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?

    It may be being done in the control itself. wxPython just does the
    equivalent to the s.encode() using the encoding returned by
    wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding().

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