code: def _run_strip_accents(self, text):
          
          text = unicodedata.normalize("NFD", text)
          output = []
          for char in text:
              cat = unicodedata.category(char)
              if cat == "Mn":
                  continue
              output.append(char)
          return "".join(output)
docs: Strips accents from a piece of text.