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Created January 7, 2014 10:48
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Strip diacricits
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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jone commented Jan 7, 2014

@tschanzt method for removing diacritics

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jone commented Jan 7, 2014

@tschanzt method for removing diacritics

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