How to slugify unicode string in Django Django15.11.2014
I use unidecode for ASCII transliterations of Unicode text
pip install Unidecode
Example
from unidecode import unidecode
from django.utils.text import slugify
text = 'Тест'
text = unidecode(text.decode('utf8'))
slugify(unicode(text))
# u'test'
Quote
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.