unidecode

ASCII transliterations of Unicode text (Python 3 module)

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/unidecode.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install python3-unidecode
Ubuntu
apt-get install python3-unidecode
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S python3-unidecode
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install python3-unidecode
Fedora
dnf install python3-unidecode
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3-unidecode
Raspbian
apt-get install python3-unidecode
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/unidecode

python3-unidecode

ASCII transliterations of Unicode text (Python 3 module)

It often happens that you have text data in Unicode, but you need to represent it in ASCII for display. One could represent non-roman Unicode characters as "???" or "\\15BA\\15A0\\1610", but neither is useful to the user reading the text. Unidecode tries to represent it in ASCII characters (i.e., the universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F), where the compromises taken when mapping between two character sets are chosen to be near what a human with a US keyboard would choose. This module generally produces better results than simply stripping accents from characters (which can be done in Python with built-in functions). It is based on hand-tuned character mappings that for example also contain ASCII approximations for symbols and non-Latin alphabets. unidecode is a Python 3 port of the Text::Unidecode Perl module.

python-unidecode

ASCII transliterations of Unicode text (Python module)

It often happens that you have text data in Unicode, but you need to represent it in ASCII for display. One could represent non-roman Unicode characters as "???" or "\\15BA\\15A0\\1610", but neither is useful to the user reading the text. Unidecode tries to represent it in ASCII characters (i.e., the universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F), where the compromises taken when mapping between two character sets are chosen to be near what a human with a US keyboard would choose. This module generally produces better results than simply stripping accents from characters (which can be done in Python with built-in functions). It is based on hand-tuned character mappings that for example also contain ASCII approximations for symbols and non-Latin alphabets. unidecode is a Python port of the Text::Unidecode Perl module.