Very helpful!
On Jan 13, 1:18 pm, Chris Tan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been using the code below for normalization. Any characters
> without
> ascii equivalents are stripped:
>
> import unicodedata
>
> nfkd = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', data)
> normalized = nfkd.encode('ascii', 'ignore').lower()
>
> It seems to work well so far for prefix suggest, except when the
> datastore
> query contains spaces it will fail. Ideas anyone?
>
> On Jan 13, 8:25 am, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I need some suggestions/guidance on how to handle strings that contain
> > characters like "François Pétillant".
>
> > I have several problems.
>
> > First, I do want to store these names in their original encoding
> > (which I think I can do in a db.Text object).
>
> > I also want to be able to search their names with or without the
> > special characters. (eg. "François" and "Francois" would both in the
> > SearchableModel's tags) Any utility to convert sensibly?
>
> > Finally, I want to be able to send back the name in utf-8 in a format
> > that can be converted back to the original on the user side. (In this
> > specific case the wine name is being sent back to my android phone
> > app.)
>
>
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