how to remove greek letters in python code example
Example: convert accented characters to normal python
# Answer written by Eswara Moorthy and edited by Igor Chubin and
# Saurabh Bhandari on StackOverflow.com
# (https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/44433664/4).
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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