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Normalise (normalize) unicode data in Python to remove umlauts, accents etc.
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normalise.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import unicodedata
""" Normalise (normalize) unicode data in Python to remove umlauts, accents etc. """
data = u'naïve café'
normal = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', data).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
print normal
# prints "naive cafe"
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