def _run_strip_accents(self, text):
        """
        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)

        Strips accents from a piece of text.
        
ptstructure/vqa/pytorchnlp/transformers/bert/tokenizer.py