code: def transliterate(string):
      
      try:
          normalized = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(string))
      except NameError:
          normalized = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string)
      return normalized.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
docs: Replace non-ASCII characters with an ASCII approximation. If no
      approximation exists, the non-ASCII character is ignored. The string must
      be ``unicode``.
      Examples::
          >>> transliterate(u'älämölö')
          u'alamolo'
          >>> transliterate(u'Ærøskøbing')
          u'rskbing'