convert accented characters to normal python
# Answer written by Eswara Moorthy and edited by Igor Chubin and # Saurabh Bhandari on StackOverflow.com # (https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/44433664/4). # Licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0 # (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). import unicodedata def strip_accents(text): try: text = unicode(text, 'utf-8') except NameError: # unicode is a default on python 3 pass text = unicodedata.normalize('NFD', text) .encode('ascii', 'ignore') .decode("utf-8") return str(text) s = strip_accents('àéêöhello') print s
