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Strip diacricits
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| import unicodedata | |
| def strip_diacricits(text): | |
| if isinstance(text, str): | |
| text = text.decode('utf-8') | |
| normalized = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text) | |
| text = u''.join([c for c in normalized if not unicodedata.combining(c)]) | |
| text = text.encode('utf-8') | |
| return text |
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@tschanzt method for removing diacritics