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Created March 24, 2016 09:04
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This little function gets a text in UTF-8 and returns the same string without accents. It is useful for comparing texts
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remove_accents.py
def remove_accents(text):
return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(text, 'utf-8')).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
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