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In order to clean some string, I have to remove some substring that contains some special UTF-8 characters.

example: 

source = "Skoda" to_be_clean = "Škoda Rapid"

I need to replace from to_be_clean the string source by nothing. Obviously, the to_be_clean string contains some special character. Is there a way to do this task simply. Here is how I am doing it today.

output = to_be_clean.replace(source + ' ', '')

I was thinking about a regular expression but I need to list all the possible characters.

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    It's really not clear what you want. Are you hoping to find a way to make "Škoda" equal to "Skoda" so that you can then remove it? There are many questions about removing accents from Unicode; have you googled those? Commented Feb 21, 2018 at 15:01

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unicodedata module should solve your problem.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import unicodedata to_be_clean = u"Škoda Rapid" print unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', to_be_clean).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')

Output:

Skoda Rapid
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Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. I was actually not aware of unicodedata module. Thanks

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