Remove non-ASCII characters from a string using python / django

Question

I have a string of HTML stored in a database. Unfortunately it contains characters such as ® I want to replace these characters by their HTML equivalent, either in the DB it

Answer 1

This code snippet may help you.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

def removeNonAscii(string):
    nonascii = bytearray(range(0x80, 0x100))
    return string.translate(None, nonascii)

nonascii_removed_string = removeNonAscii(string_to_remove_nonascii)

The encoding definition is very important here which is done in the second line.