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import unicodedata
from string import ascii_lowercase, ascii_uppercase
 
 
def italic(text):
    lower = "MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL {}"
    upper = "MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL {}"
    result = []
    
    for char in text:
        if char.islower() and char in ascii_lowercase:
            result.append(unicodedata.lookup(lower.format(char)))
        elif char.isupper() and char in ascii_uppercase:
            result.append(unicodedata.lookup(upper.format(char)))
        else:
            result.append(char)
            
    return "".join(result)
 
 
def normalize(text):
    return unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", text)