Function toascii

src/commoncode/text.py:92–118

Convert a Unicode or byte string to ASCII characters, including replacing accented characters with their non-accented equivalent. If `translit` is False use the Unicode NFKD equivalence. If `translit` is True, use a transliteration with the unidecode library. Non ISO-Latin and

(s, translit=False)

def toascii(s, translit=False):
    """
    Convert a Unicode or byte string to ASCII characters, including replacing
    accented characters with their non-accented equivalent.

    If `translit` is False use the Unicode NFKD equivalence.
    If `translit` is True, use a transliteration with the unidecode library.

    Non ISO-Latin and non ASCII characters are stripped from the output. When no
    transliteration is possible, the resulting character is replaced by an
    underscore "_".

    For Unicode NFKD equivalence, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
    The convertion may NOT preserve the original string length and with NFKD some
    characters may be deleted.
    Inspired from: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/251871/#c10 by Aaron Bentley.
    """
    if not isinstance(s, str):
        s = as_unicode(s)
    if translit:
        converted = unidecode(s)
    else:
        converted = unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", s)

    converted = converted.replace("[?]", "_")
    converted = converted.encode("ascii", "ignore")
    return converted.decode("ascii")


def python_safe_name(s):