How to replace accented characters?

Question

My output looks like 'àéêöhello!'. I need change my output like this 'aeeohello', Just replacing the character à as a like this.

Possible duplicate of [What is the best way to remove accents in a Python unicode string?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517923/what-is-the-best-way-to-remove-accents-in-a-python-unicode-string) — hestellezg, Jun 28 '18 at 17:44

score 46 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 04 '21 at 19:25

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Please Use the below 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

edited Jul 04 '21 at 19:25

Tomerikoo

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answered Jun 08 '17 at 10:49

Eswara Moorthy

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Works perfectly. Thank you. – Guillaume M Dec 26 '17 at 20:48
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Doesn't work for all the letters (Đ, ı, ł just to name some). – Fejs Oct 26 '20 at 05:29
Why `str(text)`? `normalize` seems to return a string(Python 3.9). – Safwan Samsudeen Dec 12 '20 at 03:53
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`NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined` python 3.8 – TomSawyer Jan 19 '21 at 09:44
Works without the block try (text = unicode(text, 'utf-8') gets an error. Thanks for the code. – erfelipe Jan 30 '21 at 00:19

score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 04 '21 at 19:26

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import unidecode

somestring = "àéêöhello"

#convert plain text to utf-8
u = unicode(somestring, "utf-8")
#convert utf-8 to normal text
print unidecode.unidecode(u)

Output:

aeeohello

edited Jul 04 '21 at 19:26

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answered Jun 08 '17 at 09:45

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score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 04 '21 at 19:28

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Alpesh Valaki's answer is the "nicest", but I had to do some adjustments for it to work:

# I changed the import
from unidecode import unidecode

somestring = "àéêöhello"

#convert plain text to utf-8
# replaced unicode by unidecode
u = unidecode(somestring, "utf-8")

#convert utf-8 to normal text
print(unidecode(u))

edited Jul 04 '21 at 19:28

Tomerikoo

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answered Jun 03 '21 at 18:09

Samuel Lacombe

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This works for me trying to get stuff like: 'Đà Nẵng' into 'Da Nang' - thanks! – g0h Oct 15 '22 at 08:08

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