How to implement Unicode string matching by folding in python

Question

I have an application implementing incremental search. I have a catalog of unicode strings to be matched and match them to a given \"key\" string; a catalog string is a \"hi

Answer 1

What about this one:

normalize('NFKD', unicode_string).encode('ASCII', 'ignore').lower()

Taken from here (Spanish) http://python.org.ar/pyar/Recetario/NormalizarCaracteresUnicode