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python remove accents

def simplify(text):
	import unicodedata
	try:
		text = unicode(text, 'utf-8')
	except NameError:
		pass
	text = unicodedata.normalize('NFD', text).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode("utf-8")
	return str(text)

python remove accents

from unidecode import unidecode

unidecode(u'ıöüç')

# Returns: 'iouc'

python string remove accent

def convert_to_non_accent(string):
    """ Function to convert accent characters to non accent
    characters.
    :param string: String to be converted.
    :type string: str
    :return: str
    """
    return ''.join(ch for ch in unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string)
                   if not unicodedata.combining(ch))