Strips accents/diacritics from text, normalizing accented characters to
their plain-ASCII equivalents (e.g. 'é' -> 'e'). Non-Latin scripts pass
through unchanged -- this only affects characters that decompose into a
plain-ASCII base plus a combining mark under Unicode NFD.
Strips accents/diacritics from text, normalizing accented characters to their plain-ASCII equivalents (e.g. 'é' -> 'e'). Non-Latin scripts pass through unchanged -- this only affects characters that decompose into a plain-ASCII base plus a combining mark under Unicode NFD.