How to unify all the "-" signs?

I have a simple program that takes data from the user. Here is an abbreviated version of it:

a = "0-1"
b = "0‑1"

print(a in b)  # prints False

Problem:

ord(‘-‘) for a = 45

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ord(‘‑’) for b = 8209

How can I make sure that the "-" sign is always the same and checking a in b returns True?

>Solution :

The most robust way would be to use the unidecode module to convert all non-ASCII characters to their closest ASCII equivalent automatically.

import unidecode
print(unidecode.unidecode(a) in unidecode.unidecode(b))