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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 normalize_name(s):
 """ Remove foreign accents and characters to normalize the string. Prevents encoding errors. :param str s: String :return str s: String """

    # Normalize the string into a byte string form
    s = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', s).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
    # Remove the byte string and quotes from the string
    s = str(s)[2:-1]
    return s