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Created June 14, 2012 05:51
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Strip diacritics from Python string
import unicodedata
def remove_diacritics(s):
nkfd_form = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(s))
return u"".join([c for c in nkfd_form if not unicodedata.combining(c)])
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