**YouTube** is an American [online video-sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_hosting_service "Video hosting service") [platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_platform "Web platform") headquartered in [San Bruno, California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno,_California "San Bruno, California")

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This component contains two activities:

1.  Normalize Selector - removes any characters that are not numbers or letters with \* for a much more dynamic selector.
2.  Replace Diacritics - normalizes a string by replacing diacritics with their equivalent without a glyph.

Possible use cases:

*   Comparing texts from 2 sources where texts can appear with or without glyphs.
*   Using a dynamic selector that contains special characters that might differ.

Normalize strings for better matching of texts

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FutureWorkForce - Remove Special Characters