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Python replace accented characters code

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

Source: stackoverflow.com

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