translit

src/music_kraken/utils/string_processing.py

@@ -1,22 +1,31 @@
+from transliterate.exceptions import LanguageDetectionError
+from transliterate import translit
+
+
 def unify(string: str) -> str:
     """
-    returns an unified str, to make comparosons easy.
-    an unified string has following attributes:
+    returns a unified str, to make comparisons easy.
+    a unified string has the following attributes:
      - is lowercase
     """
-    
+
+    try:
+        string = translit(string, reversed=True)
+    except LanguageDetectionError:
+        pass
+
     return string.lower()
 
+
 def fit_to_file_system(string: str) -> str:
     string = string.strip()
-    
+
     while string[0] == ".":
         if len(string) == 0:
             return string
-        
+
         string = string[1:]
-        
+
     string = string.replace("/", "|").replace("\\", "|")
-        
+
     return string
-