Remove Non Unicode Characters

# Removes non uni code characters from a text
# @param text is the text value to strip of non unicode characters
# Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20078816/replace-non-ascii-characters-with-a-single-space
def removeNonUniChars(text):
    # This specifically removes control characters (what those are)
    return re.sub(r'[\x00-\x08\x10-\x1f\x7f-\x9f]', '', text)

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