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It often happens that you have text data in Unicode, but you need
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to represent it in ASCII. For example when integrating with legacy
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code that doesn't support Unicode, or for ease of entry of non-Roman
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names on a US keyboard, or when constructing ASCII machine identifiers
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from human-readable Unicode strings that should still be somewhat
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intelligeble (a popular example of this is when making an URL slug
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from an article title).
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Note that this module generally produces better results than simply
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stripping accents from characters (which can be done in Python with
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built-in functions). It is based on hand-tuned character mappings
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that for example also contain ASCII approximations for symbols and
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non-Latin alphabets.
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This is a Python port of Text::Unidecode Perl module by Sean M.
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Burke.
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