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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 remove_diacritics(self_or_cls, identifier):
 """ Remove diacritics and accents from the input leaving other unicode characters alone."""

        chars = ''
        for c in identifier:
            replacement = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', c).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
            if replacement != '':
                chars += bytes_to_unicode(replacement)
            else:
                chars += c
        return chars