diff --git a/trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py b/trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py
index ee2763c9..300b5a72 100644
--- a/trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py
+++ b/trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import types
 import io
 import warnings
 import importlib
+import re
+import unicodedata

 from sql import Literal
 from sql.operators import Or
@@ -272,3 +274,15 @@ def rstrip_wildcard(string, wildcard='%', escape='\\'):
     if new_string[-1] == escape:
         return string
     return new_string
+
+
+_slugify_strip_re = re.compile(r'[^\w\s-]')
+_slugify_hyphenate_re = re.compile(r'[-\s]+')
+
+
+def slugify(value, hyphenate='-'):
+    if not isinstance(value, str):
+        value = str(value)
+    value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value)
+    value = str(_slugify_strip_re.sub('', value).strip())
+    return _slugify_hyphenate_re.sub(hyphenate, value)