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On 2024-06-03, Edward Teach via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:

> The Gutenburg Project publishes "plain text".  That's another
> problem, because "plain text" means UTF-8....and that means
> unicode...and that means running some sort of unicode-to-ascii
> conversion in order to get something like "words".  A couple of
> hours....a couple of hundred lines of C....problem solved!

I'm curious.  Why does it need to be converted frum Unicode to ASCII?

When you read it into Python, it gets converted right back to Unicode...