Latin To English Alphabet Hashing

I have to convert all the latin characters to their corresponding English alphabets. Can I use Python to do it? Or is there a mapping available? Unicode values to non-unicode char

Solution 1:

It looks like what you want is accent removal. You can do this with:

def strip_accents(text):
    return ''.join(char for char in
                   unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text)
                   if unicodedata.category(char) != 'Mn')

>>> strip_accents('áéíñóúü')
'aeinouu'
>>> strip_accents('Ramírez Sánchez')
'Ramirez Sanchez'

This works fine for Spanish, but note that it doesn't always work for other languages.

>>> strip_accents('ø')
'ø'