---
id: text-unidecode
version: "1.3"
license: Artistic License
license_treatment: copyleft
maintenance: abandoned
---

# text-unidecode — The most basic Text::Unidecode port

License: copyleft · Maintenance: abandoned · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install text-unidecode
uv add text-unidecode
poetry add text-unidecode

## Description

Text-Unidecode
==============

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text-unidecode is the most basic port of the
`Text::Unidecode <http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Text-Unidecode-0.04/lib/Text/Unidecode.pm>`_
Perl library.

There are other Python ports of Text::Unidecode (unidecode_
and isounidecode_). unidecode_ is GPL; isounidecode_ uses too much memory,
and it didn't support Python 3 when this package was created.

You can redistribute it and/or modify this port under the terms of either:

* `Artistic License`_, or
* GPL or GPLv2+

If you're OK with GPL-only, use unidecode_ (it has better memory usage and
better transliteration quality).

``text-unidecode`` supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+.

.. _unidecode: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode/
.. _isounidecode: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/isounidecode/
.. _Artistic License: https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-Perl-1.0

Installation
------------

::

    pip install text-unidecode

Usage
-----

::

    >>> from text_unidecode import unidecode
    >>> unidecode(u'какой-то текст')
    'kakoi-to tekst'

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Converts Unicode text to ASCII transliteration by replacing accented and non-Latin characters with their closest ASCII equivalents, useful for slugs, search, and systems that cannot handle Unicode.

Verdict: text-unidecode is a lightweight, dependency-free transliteration tool suitable for basic Unicode-to-ASCII conversion. Its abandoned status (no releases since 2019) and copyleft license are the primary concerns; for active maintenance and better quality, the description itself recommends the unidecode package instead, though that carries GPL licensing.

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