I want to find frequency of different letters in a text, and some of them use diacritics. As example the text uses both 'å' and 'ą̊ '(U+00E5 U+0328) and the frequency needs to be counted for separately. How do I do that? I've tried using Counter collection, open the file using utf8 format, split the text string using both text.split() and list(text), but python still counts 'å' and 'ą̊ ' as same letter! Continue reading...