Source code for pyquickhelper.texthelper.diacritic_helper

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Some functions about diacritics


:githublink:`%|py|6`
"""

import unicodedata


def remove_diacritics(input_str):
    """
    Removes diacritics.

    :param      input_str:       string to clean
    :return:                     cleaned string

    Example::

        enguérand --> enguerand


    :githublink:`%|py|20`
    """
    nkfd_form = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', input_str)
    only_ascii = nkfd_form.encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
    return only_ascii.decode("utf8")