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Diacritics puzzles
>>> len('İ')
1
>>> len('İ'.lower())
2
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pombredanne commented Nov 10, 2019 •
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>>> import re
>>> pat = '[^_\\W]+\\+?[^_\\W]*'
>>> q = 'İ mit license'
>>> list(pat.findall(q.lower()))[0]=='i'
True
>>> list(pat.finditer(q.lower()))[0]=='i'
False

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>>> pat=re.compile('[^_\\W]+\\+?[^_\\W]*')
>>> q='İ'
>>> found = [m.lower() for m in pat.findall(q)]
>>> lowered=[m for m in pat.findall(q.lower())]
>>> found == lowered
False
>>> found 
['i̇']
>>> lowered
['i']
>>> lowered == ['i']
True
>>> found == ['i']
False

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