uniclean

Functions for filtering potentially harmful unicode characters.

Currently just has bidiclean, which ensures Unicode bidirectional characters are correctly balanced, as explained by Cal Henderson here:

http://www.iamcal.com/understanding-bidirectional-text/

Python library and CLI for validating UTF-8 text

Paste in some broken unicode text and FTFY will tell you how to fix it!

Rescue of Mark Pilgrim's chardet library

A repository of letters and look-alikes to create text normalization capable filters

Fast percent encoding and decoding for Python

Doing dirty (but extremely useful) things with equals.

A page listing all the Unicode characters that are valid in Python variable names

A Python port of the Apache Lucene ASCII Folding Filter that converts alphabetic, numeric, and sy...

Python module for unicode blocks.

Han character dictionary

Python extension for dealing with validation and cleanup of UTF-8 strings

[ab]using Unicode to create tragedy

Truly universal encoding detector in pure Python

Python character encoding detector