code: def clean_strict(text, boundary=WS):
      
      # transliterate to ascii
      text = ascii_text(text)
      # replace punctuation and symbols
      text = CHARACTERS_REMOVE_RE.sub('', text)
      text = category_replace(text)
      # pad out for company type replacements
      text = ''.join((boundary, collapse_spaces(text), boundary))
      return text
docs: Super-hardcore string scrubbing.