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keevee09 / normalise.py
Created April 2, 2016 00:51 — forked from j4mie/normalise.py
Normalise (normalize) unicode data in Python to remove umlauts, accents etc.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import unicodedata
""" Normalise (normalize) unicode data in Python to remove umlauts, accents etc. """
data = u'naïve café'
normal = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', data).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
print normal