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/ normalise.py
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August 30, 2010 12:44
Normalise (normalize) unicode data in Python to remove umlauts, accents etc.
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| # -*- 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 | |