EasyNLPnlp-101

Strip Accents (NFC-lite)

Problem

Return text with diacritical marks removed. Normalize with Unicode NFD so base characters and combining marks are separate, then drop every combining character.

Characters without accents are left unchanged.

Hint

unicodedata.combining returns non-zero for combining marks.

Test cases

case 1

in: ["café"]

expected: "cafe"

case 2

in: ["naïve"]

expected: "naive"

case 3

in: ["Añejo"]

expected: "Anejo"

case 4

in: ["abc"]

expected: "abc"

case 5

in: [""]

expected: ""

Starter codePython

import unicodedata
def strip_accents(text):
    # Your code here
    pass

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