clipboard2ascii.py

#!/usr/local/miniconda3/bin/python
# A snippet for reading a Unicode string from clipboard, convert the string to one that is ASCII compatible, and then paste it to the clipboard. This converts for example "ß" to "ss"..
# The code is based on the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/25802742/3706018.
import pasteboard
import subprocess
from unidecode import unidecode

pb = pasteboard.Pasteboard()
asciidata = unidecode(pb.get_contents())

def write_to_clipboard(output):
    process = subprocess.Popen(
        'pbcopy', env={'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8'}, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
    process.communicate(output.encode('utf-8'))

write_to_clipboard(asciidata)