Function to replace some annoying characters

UNICODE to ASCII python replace

def unicodetoascii(text):

    TEXT = (text.
    		replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x99', "'").
            replace('\\xc3\\xa9', 'e').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x90', '-').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x91', '-').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x92', '-').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x93', '-').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x94', '-').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x94', '-').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x98', "'").
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x9b', "'").
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x9c', '"').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x9c', '"').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x9d', '"').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x9e', '"').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\x9f', '"').
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\xa6', '...').#
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\xb2', "'").
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\xb3', "'").
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\xb4', "'").
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\xb5', "'").
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\xb6', "'").
            replace('\\xe2\\x80\\xb7', "'").
            replace('\\xe2\\x81\\xba', "+").
            replace('\\xe2\\x81\\xbb', "-").
            replace('\\xe2\\x81\\xbc', "=").
            replace('\\xe2\\x81\\xbd', "(").
            replace('\\xe2\\x81\\xbe', ")")

                 )
    return TEXT

Thanks for sharing this

For me \xe2\x80\x8b is causing problems, you might wanna add it to your list as well.

You may use this utf-8 special char lists to clean text with certain codes