use unidecode instead of replacing individual characters

davidcaron · Jun 18, 2018 · 6599bbd · 6599bbd
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diff --git a/generators/utils.py b/generators/utils.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from os.path import join
 from typing import List
+from unidecode import unidecode
 
 from inflection import camelize
 
@@ -145,12 +146,8 @@ def clean_doxygen(doxygen):
         ("}", ""),
         ("<b>", ""),
         ("</b>", ""),
-        ("≥", ">="),
-        ("ü", "u"),
-        ("–", "-"),
-        ("ﬁ", "fi"),
-        ("", ""),  # invisible character in fast_bilateral_filter.h "Frdo Durand"[2] (no kidding)
     ]
     for k, v in replace:
         doxygen = doxygen.replace(k, v)
+    doxygen = unidecode(doxygen)
     return doxygen
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ pybind11>=2.3dev
 PyYAML
 CppHeaderParser==2.7.3.1
 inflection
+unidecode
 # vtk==8.1  # install from conda
 
 pytest