How to make Django slugify work properly with Unicode strings?

Question

What can I do to prevent slugify filter from stripping out non-ASCII alphanumeric characters? (I\'m using Django 1.0.2)

cnprog.com has Chinese character

Answer 1

This is what I use:

http://trac.django-fr.org/browser/site/trunk/djangofr/links/slughifi.py

SlugHiFi is a wrapper for regular slugify, with a difference that it replaces national chars with their English alphabet counterparts.

So instead of "Ą" you get "A", instead of "Ł" => "L", and so on.