code: def make_ascii(word):
      
      if sys.version_info < (3, 0, 0):
          word = unicode(word)
      else:
          word = str(word)
  
      normalized = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', word)
  
      return normalized.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('utf-8')
docs: Converts unicode-specific characters to their equivalent ascii