import unicodedata


def run_strip_accents(text):
    """
    From tokenization_bert.py by huggingface/transformers.
    Strips accents from a piece of 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)