From e2829f4fca7683096524b03faaa7d84d1dea3696 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: id3s3c <51968606+id3s3c@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 19:18:25 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] lower case names before remove accents (#31)

Names that begin with accent characters were being removed in the lists
---
 linkedin2username.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/linkedin2username.py b/linkedin2username.py
index c6bdf66..af4cfda 100755
--- a/linkedin2username.py
+++ b/linkedin2username.py
@@ -596,6 +596,9 @@ def clean(raw_list):
     allowed_chars = re.compile('[^a-zA-Z -]')
     for name in raw_list:
 
+        # Lower-case everything to make it easier to de-duplicate.
+        name = name.lower()
+      
         # Try to transform non-English characters below.
         name = remove_accents(name)
 
@@ -604,9 +607,6 @@ def clean(raw_list):
         # People like to feel special, I guess.
         name = allowed_chars.sub('', name)
 
-        # Lower-case everything to make it easier to de-duplicate.
-        name = name.lower()
-
         # The line below tries to consolidate white space between words
         # and get rid of leading/trailing spaces.
         name = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', name).strip()