1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chimere/utils.py b/chimere/utils.py
index b2c8ccc..97f710f 100644
--- a/chimere/utils.py
+++ b/chimere/utils.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Utilitaries
 """
 
 import urllib2, re
+import unicodedata
 from external_utils import OsmApi
 from lxml import etree
 from chimere import get_version
@@ -30,6 +31,11 @@ from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
+def unicode_normalize(string):
+    return ''.join(
+        (c for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', string)
+        if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn'))
+
 class ImportManager:
     u"""
     Generic class for specific importers
@@ -130,7 +136,7 @@ RE_NODE = re.compile('node\[([^\]]*)\]')
 
 class OSMManager(ImportManager):
     u"""
-    OSM importer
+    OSM importer/exporter
     The source url is a path to an OSM file or a XAPI url
     The filtr argument is XAPI args or empty if it is an OSM file.
     """