text: """Utility functions"""
  
  from unidecode import unidecode
  
  def remove_diacritics(string):
      """Removes diacritics from the given string
  
      Parameters
      ----------
      string : str
          The string from which diacritics should be removed
  
      Returns
      -------
      string : str
          The string with its diacritics removed
      """
      uni = unidecode(string)
      # r = uni.encode("ascii")
      return uni
  