Question

Hi i have been trying this for some time now no result yet.
i have a dict = {'Å':'a', 'Ä':'a', 'Ö':'0', 'å':'a', 'ä':'a', 'ö':'o'}

 input = lxml.etree.parse(inputxml)
 for block in input.xpath('//PAGE/BLOCK/TEXT'):
    J = block.xpath('TOKEN/text()')
    current = 0
    line = ""
    while current < len(J):
        A = J[current]
        current += 1

i need to scan A with the dict and find the non-english letters and replace it with english letter

   for i in A:
        if(dict.has_key(i)):
              ReplaceWord= A.replace(i,dict[i])

but this is not working

Answer 1

Not what you asked about, but it looks like you might be interested in it: Unidecode is a module specifically intended to reduce any series of characters to the most similar ASCII characters.

>>> import unidecode # to install: `pip install unidecode`
>>> line = u"Flyttbara hyllplan anpassar förvaringen så"
>>> unidecode.unidecode(line)
u'Flyttbara hyllplan anpassar forvaringen sa'