strip-marks 1.0.0

Small Python library to strip non-spacing marks (e.g., diacritics) from a string

strip_marks

A small Python library for stripping non-spacing marks (e.g., diacritics; accents) from a string.

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Quick Start

from strip_marks import strip_marks

assert strip_marks("şéàşöñ") == "season"
assert strip_marks("kaderdenkesişenyollarinhikayesi.xyz") == "kaderdenkesisenyollarinhikayesi.xyz"

def identity(x): return x
assert strip_marks("hello world") == identity("hello world")

Using strip_marks as a Library

This package is published on PyPI. You can install it with PIP:

$ pip add strip_marks

Or, if using UV for dependency management:

$ uv add strip-marks

Notes on Internal Functionality

This library also implements (and uses internally) functions adapted from the utf8proc C library to handle characters of multiple codepoints. We also use bitwise functionality from our sister package, ispunct.

Alternative Libraries

This was written mostly as a proof of concept. A more developed library with this functionality is unidecode. A curious reader may also be interested in unihandecode/pykakasi or text-unidecode.

Citation

If your research depends on strip_marks, please consider giving us a formal citation: citation.bib.