topic Re: replace accented characters with the field calculator in Python Questions

replace accented characters with the field calculator

RTMRTM — Fri, 15 May 2020 23:38:30 GMT

I need to replace all the special characters in a field.

I am using the replace function, but it gives me an error

!Nombre_Cli! .replace("áéíóúñ#/,","aeioun ")

Re: replace accented characters with the field calculator

DanPatterson — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 09:39:27 GMT

From

What is the best way to remove accents in a Python unicode string? - Stack Overflow

oefe's response

z = "áéíóúñ#/"  # ---- an example

import unicodedata
def strip_accents(s):
   return ''.join(c for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', s)
                  if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn')
                  

strip_accents(z)  # ---- example output
'aeioun#/'‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: replace accented characters with the field calculator

JoshuaBixby — Tue, 19 May 2020 14:11:14 GMT

RTM RTM‌, it appears Dan's reply answered your question. If so, please mark it correct to close out the question. If not, what didn't work?