unicode decomposition

decomposition.py

s1 = 'Jalape\u00f1o' # composed form
s2 = 'Jalapen\u0303o' # decomposed form
print(s1,s2) 
# Output: Jalapeño Jalapeño
print(s1 == s2)
# Output: False

from unicodedata import normalize
v1 = normalize('NFC',s1)
v2 = normalize('NFC',s2)

print(v1 == v2)
# Output: True
v3 = normalize('NFD',s1)
v4 = normalize('NFD',s2)

print(v3 == v4)

# Output: True