How to replace accented characters?
Please Use the below code:
import unicodedatadef 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
import unidecodesomestring = "àéêöhello"#convert plain text to utf-8u = unicode(somestring, "utf-8")#convert utf-8 to normal textprint unidecode.unidecode(u)Output:
aeeohello
Alpesh Valaki's answer is the "nicest", but I had to do some adjustments for it to work:
# I changed the importfrom unidecode import unidecodesomestring = "àéêöhello"#convert plain text to utf-8# replaced unicode by unidecodeu = unidecode(somestring, "utf-8")#convert utf-8 to normal textprint(unidecode(u))