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at July 17, 2008 06:51 by scarfboy
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reCombining = re.compile(u'[\u0300-\u036f\u1dc0-\u1dff\u20d0-\u20ff\ufe20-\ufe2f]',re.U)
def remove_diacritics(s):
" Decomposes string, then removes combining characters "
return reCombining.sub('',unicodedata.normalize('NFD',unicode(s)) )
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Useful when creating canonical forms of strings for indexing.
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remove diacritics
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python
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Python