Approximately converting unicode string to ascii string in python

Question

don\'t know wether this is trivial or not, but I\'d need to convert an unicode string to ascii string, and I wouldn\'t like to have all those escape chars around. I mean, is

Answer 1

There is a technique to strip accents from characters, but other characters need to be directly replaced. Check this article: http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-convert.htm