Module normalize 

Functions

extract_surname_token

Return the last whitespace-delimited token of a name, stripping tussenvoegsel from single-field full-name representations.

normalize_digits_only

normalize_plate

Strip hyphens and spaces from a license plate and uppercase it. “25-XKL-9” becomes “25XKL9”.

normalize_text

strip_tussenvoegsel

Strip common Dutch tussenvoegsel prefixes so that “VAN DEN BERG” and “BERG” produce the same phonetic key.

transliterate_and_normalize

Transliterate non-Latin Unicode to ASCII via any_ascii, then apply standard normalization (NFKD diacritic stripping + uppercase + collapse whitespace). Useful for Arabic/Cyrillic name input before phonetic encoding.