Decompose

This module provides a method for decomposing strings containing latin diacretics, ligatures, and other unusual latin letters into their appropriate ascii counterparts generally for the purpose of data for submission into systems requiring the usage of the ascii subset.

Example

from decompose import decompose

decompose('Málaga') # returns 'Malaga'

Comments

decompose.decompose() depends upon unicodedata.normalize() for most of its heavy lifting. However, it also contains a lookup table (decompose.charmap) for those unicode characters that are not necessarily handled by normalize(). Any letter not handled by either normalize or charmap will be silently dropped.