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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _run_strip_accents(self, text):
 """Strips accents from a piece of text."""

        text = unicodedata.normalize("NFD", text)
        output = []
        for char in text:
            cat = unicodedata.category(char)
            if cat == "Mn":
                continue
            output.append(char)
        return "".join(output)