@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ class Mnemonic(object):
def prepare_seed(self, seed):
# normalize
seed = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(seed))
# lower
seed = seed.lower()
# remove accents and whitespaces
seed = u''.join([c for c in seed if not unicodedata.combining(c) and not c in string.whitespace])
return seed