Latin to English alphabet hashing

Question

I have to convert all the latin characters to their corresponding English alphabets. Can I use Python to do it? Or is there a mapping available?

Unicode values to non-unicode characters

Ramírez Sánchez should be converted to Ramirez Sanchez.

English alphabet *is* the latin alphabet. Can you be more specific? — Karl Bielefeldt, Dec 22 '10 at 18:55
possible duplicate of [What is the best way to remove accents in a python unicode string?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/517923/what-is-the-best-way-to-remove-accents-in-a-python-unicode-string) — Lennart Regebro, Dec 22 '10 at 18:59

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '10 at 19:03

It looks like what you want is accent removal. You can do this with:

def strip_accents(text):
    return ''.join(char for char in
                   unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text)
                   if unicodedata.category(char) != 'Mn')

>>> strip_accents('áéíñóúü')
'aeinouu'
>>> strip_accents('Ramírez Sánchez')
'Ramirez Sanchez'

This works fine for Spanish, but note that it doesn't always work for other languages.

>>> strip_accents('ø')
'ø'

Latin to English alphabet hashing

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