import unicodedata


def remove_accented_chars(text):
    """
    This function removes accented characters from the corpus using ASCII
    characters
    
    text: String corpus of text data
    
    returns: Corpus with all characters converted and standardized into ASCII characters

    """
    
    text = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
    return text