def _run_strip_accents(self, text):
"""Strips accents from a piece of text."""
text = unicodedata.normalize("NFD", text)
output = []
for char in text:
cat = unicodedata.category(char)
if cat == "Mn":
continue
output.append(char)
return "".join(output)
python
>>> chars = list(unicodedata.normalize("NFD", "モデル"))
>>> chars
['モ', 'テ', '゙', 'ル']
>>> [unicodedata.category(c) for c in chars]
>>> ['Lo', 'Lo', 'Mn', 'Lo']