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+++ b/web/ldt/utils/path.py	Fri Oct 22 18:14:30 2010 +0200
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+"""
+Some small file related utilities
+"""
+
+import unicodedata
+import string
+
+validFilenameChars = "-_.() %s%s" % (string.ascii_letters, string.digits)
+
+
+def sanitize_filename(filename):
+    cleanedFilename = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', filename).encode('ASCII', 'ignore').lower()
+    return ''.join(c for c in cleanedFilename if c in validFilenameChars).replace(' ','_')
+    
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