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It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode, but you can't
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display it -- usually because you're trying to show it to a user via an
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application that doesn't support Unicode, or because the fonts you need aren't
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accessible. You could represent the Unicode characters as "???????" or
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"\15BA\15A0\1610...", but that's nearly useless to the user who actually wants
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to read what the text says.
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What Text::Unidecode provides is a function, unidecode(...) that takes Unicode
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data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters (i.e., the universally
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displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The representation is almost
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always an attempt at transliteration -- i.e., conveying, in Roman letters, the
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pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system.
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