Ugly unicode text

A couple of days ago, I worked with an ugly unicode text, kind of like this:</p>

ⒶⓀⓋⓉⒺ

b̼̘̬ͭ͂̈́̀l͇͉̱͚̲̗̗͞a̱̭̬͎͉̤ͨ͂̌̑̓͂͐h̬̯̻̩͗ͩͯḅ̢̬͕͈̥̅̌͆̔̉ͅḽ̘̖̼͚́͒̈́̏͌̃͟ ͎̮̫̍ͫ̽͐͋ͤ͂a̜͔̩͇̩̪͐̍̐̃ͤ͑ ̦̌ḧ̙̝͓̜͕̝̈́ͅb̛̞͔̽̃̍ͪla̘̠͖͍̣͙̝͌ͪ͒̃ͯ ͗͛̆͊.̛̭̜̞̲͓̯ͧ̅ĥ͂͑/̢̊/̠̘͖͖̖̺̯

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And I need to get a normal text from this shit, because MySQL has weird unicode support. So I made these simple functions for cleaning up unicode text:</p>


def stripaccents(s):
    """ Strip accents from a string """
    result = []
    for char in s:
        # Pass these symbols without processing
        if char in [u'й', u'Й', u'\n']: 
            result.append(char)
            continue
        for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', char):
            if unicodedata.category(c) == 'Mn':
                continue
            result.append(c)
    return ''.join(result)
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def stripsymbols(s):
    """ Strip ugly unicode symbols from a string """
    result = []
    for char in s:
        # Pass these symbols without processing
        if char in [u'й', u'Й', u'\n']:
            result.append(char)
            continue
        for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', char):
            if unicodedata.category(c) == 'Zs':
                result.append(u' ')
                continue
            if unicodedata.category(c) not in ['So', 'Mn', 
                             'Lo', 'Cn', 'Co', 'Cf', 'Cc']:
                result.append(c)
    return u"".join(result)
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