docs: def normalize_name(s):
      """
      Remove foreign accents and characters to normalize the string. Prevents encoding errors.
  
      :param str s: String
      :return str s: String
      """
      # Normalize the string into a byte string form
      s = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', s).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
      # Remove the byte string and quotes from the string
      s = str(s)[2:-1]
      return s