Regex for accent insensitive replacement in python

Question

In Python 3, I\'d like to be able to use re.sub() in an \"accent-insensitive\" way, as we can do with the re.I flag for case-insensitive substituti

Answer 1

You can use Unidecode:

$ pip install unidecode

In your program:

from unidecode import unidecode

original_text = "I'm drinking a café in a cafe."
unidecoded_text = unidecode(original_text)
regex = r'cafe'
re.sub(regex, 'X', unidecoded_text)