It is a sad state to things in our IT industry in the US that we often cannot and do not properly collect people's names in databases if their actual names include characters outside the original 7-bit ASCII set. Yet, with so much data collected on older systems of record, there has been a tradition in the industry to ignore accents in names in Latin characters and even to suppress capitalization. More recently [https://a61.asmdc.org/news/20170330-california-jose-goes-accent-mark-e-law]
NNPES blah blah
Convert Unicode strings to nearest US ASCII equivalent by dropping accents, like manual entries into an old ASCII name database would.
- TODO
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You can install Asciize via pip from PyPI:
$ pip install asciizePlease see the Command-line Reference for details.
Simple usage
poetry run asciize Cañón
CanonContributions are very welcome. To learn more, see the Contributor Guide.
Distributed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, Asciize is free and open source software.
If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description.
This project was generated from @cjolowicz's Hypermodern Python Cookiecutter template.
see:
text_to_id("Montréal, über, 12.89, Mère, Françoise, noël, 889")
'montreal_uber_1289_mere_francoise_noel_889'
José Jose Tomáš, and Matyáš Adéla, and Natálie Novák Dvořák Černý Jörg Sébastien