Function unicodeToAscii

intermediate_source/char_rnn_classification_tutorial.py:92–97

(s)

# Turn a Unicode string to plain ASCII, thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/518232/2809427
def unicodeToAscii(s):
    return ''.join(
        c for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', s)
        if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn'
        and c in allowed_characters
    )

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# Here's an example of converting a unicode alphabet name to plain ASCII. This simplifies the input layer