text: #!/home/ddiezmallo/Projects/euBERTus/.pyvenv/bin/python
  
  #
  #  latin2ascii.py - converts latin1 characters into ascii.
  #
  
  import sys
  
  """ Mappings from Latin-1 characters to ASCII.
  
  This is an in-house mapping table for some Latin-1 characters
  (acutes, umlauts, etc.) to ASCII strings.
  """
  
  LATIN2ASCII = {
    #0x00a0: '',
    #0x00a7: '',
  
    # iso-8859-1
    0x00c0: 'A`',
    0x00c1: "A'",
    0x00c2: 'A^',
    0x00c3: 'A~',
    0x00c4: 'A:',
    0x00c5: 'A%',
    0x00c6: 'AE',
    0x00c7: 'C,',
    0x00c8: 'E`',
    0x00c9: "E'",
    0x00ca: 'E^',
    0x00cb: 'E:',
    0x00cc: 'I`',
    0x00cd: "I'",
    0x00ce: 'I^',
    0x00cf: 'I:',
    0x00d0: "D'",
    0x00d1: 'N~',
    0x00d2: 'O`',
    0x00d3: "O'",
    0x00d4: 'O^',
    0x00d5: 'O~',
    0x00d6: 'O:',
    0x00d8: 'O/',
    0x00d9: 'U`',
    0x00da: "U'",
    0x00db: 'U~',
    0x00dc: 'U:',
    0x00dd: "Y'",
    0x00df: 'ss',
  
    0x00e0: 'a`',
    0x00e1: "a'",
    0x00e2: 'a^',
    0x00e3: 'a~',
    0x00e4: 'a:',
    0x00e5: 'a%',
    0x00e6: 'ae',
    0x00e7: 'c,',
    0x00e8: 'e`',
    0x00e9: "e'",
    0x00ea: 'e^',
    0x00eb: 'e:',
    0x00ec: 'i`',
    0x00ed: "i'",
    0x00ee: 'i^',
    0x00ef: 'i:',
    0x00f0: "d'",
    0x00f1: 'n~',
    0x00f2: 'o`',
    0x00f3: "o'",
    0x00f4: 'o^',
    0x00f5: 'o~',
    0x00f6: 'o:',
    0x00f8: 'o/',
    0x00f9: 'o`',
    0x00fa: "u'",
    0x00fb: 'u~',
    0x00fc: 'u:',
    0x00fd: "y'",
    0x00ff: 'y:',
  
    # Ligatures
    0x0152: 'OE',
    0x0153: 'oe',
    0x0132: 'IJ',
    0x0133: 'ij',
    0x1d6b: 'ue',
    0xfb00: 'ff',
    0xfb01: 'fi',
    0xfb02: 'fl',
    0xfb03: 'ffi',
    0xfb04: 'ffl',
    0xfb05: 'ft',
    0xfb06: 'st',
  
    # Symbols
    #0x2013: '',
    0x2014: '--',
    0x2015: '||',
    0x2018: '`',
    0x2019: "'",
    0x201c: '``',
    0x201d: "''",
    #0x2022: '',
    #0x2212: '',
  
  }
  
  def latin2ascii(s):
      return ''.join( LATIN2ASCII.get(ord(c),c) for c in s )
  
  
  def main(argv):
      import getopt, fileinput
      def usage():
          print ('usage: %s [-c codec] file ...' % argv[0])
          return 100
      try:
          (opts, args) = getopt.getopt(argv[1:], 'c')
      except getopt.GetoptError:
          return usage()
      if not args: return usage()
      codec = 'utf-8'
      for (k, v) in opts:
          if k == '-c': codec = v
      for line in fileinput.input(args):
          line = latin2ascii(unicode(line, codec, 'ignore'))
          sys.stdout.write(line.encode('ascii', 'replace'))
      return
  
  if __name__ == '__main__': sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  