Unidecode 0.04.6

It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode, but you can't display it -- usually because you're trying to show it to a user via an application that doesn't support Unicode, or because the fonts you need aren't accessible. You could represent the Unicode characters as " ??" or " BA A0q0...", but that's nearly useless to the user who actually wants to read what the text says.<br /><br />What Unidecode provides is a function, 'unidecode(...)' that takes Unicode data and tries to represent it in ASCII characters (i.e., the universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The representation is almost always an attempt at transliteration -- i.e., conveying, in Roman letters, the pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system.<br /><br />For example 'unidecode(u"u5317u4EB0")' returns 'Bei Jing'.

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Platforms:	Mac, Mac OSX
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