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turn unicode string to plain ascii
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unicodeToAscii.py
# Turn a Unicode string to plain ASCII, thanks to
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/518232/2809427
def unicodeToAscii(s):
return ''.join(
c for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', s)
if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn'
)
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