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Created November 9, 2017 15:45
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decode.py
a = 'CURAÌàAO'
def normalize_str(x):
if type(x) != unicode:
encoding = "utf-8" # or iso-8859-15, or cp1252, or whatever encoding you use
byte_string = bytes(x) # or simply "café" before python 3.
unicode_string = byte_string.decode(encoding)
else:
unicode_string = x
return unicodedata.normalize('NFD', unicode_string).encode('ascii','ignore')
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