I am writing a forum in Python. I want to strip input containing the right-to-left mark and things like that. Suggestions? Possibly a regular expression?
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I am writing a forum in Python. I want to strip input containing the right-to-left mark and things like that. Suggestions? Possibly a regular expression?
If you simply want to restrict the characters to those of a certain character set, you could encode the string in that character set and just ignore encoding errors: