import re locale_folder = "locales/" locale = open(locale_folder + "fr.json").read() godamn_spaces_of_hell = ["\u00a0", "\u2000", "\u2001", "\u2002", "\u2003", "\u2004", "\u2005", "\u2006", "\u2007", "\u2008", "\u2009", "\u200A", "\u202f", "\u202F", "\u3000"] transformations = {s: " " for s in godamn_spaces_of_hell} transformations.update({ "courriel": "email", "e-mail": "email", "Courriel": "Email", "E-mail": "Email", "« ": "'", "«": "'", " »": "'", "»": "'", "…": "...", "’": "'", #r"$(\w{1,2})'|( \w{1,2})'": r"\1\2’", }) for pattern, replace in transformations.items(): locale = re.compile(pattern).sub(replace, locale) open(locale_folder + "fr.json", "w").write(locale)