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Snippets Manager Strip Accents
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// Strip accents from a string. For example, "Sigur Rós" => "Sigur Ros".
def strip_accents(string):
import unicodedata
return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(string)).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
