code: def to_ascii(data):
      """Transform accentuated unicode symbols into ascii or nothing
  
      Warning: this solution is only suited for languages that have a direct
      transliteration to ASCII symbols.
  
      A better solution would be to use transliteration based on a precomputed
      unidecode map to be used by translate as explained here:
  
          http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2854230/
  
      """
      import unicodedata
  
      if isinstance(data, bytes):
          data = data.decode()
      nkfd_form = unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", data)
      only_ascii = nkfd_form.encode("ASCII", "ignore")
  
      # Return a string
      return only_ascii.decode("ascii")
  
imports: from subprocess import DEVNULL, PIPE, Popen
  from ..imports import *
label_desc: Use image node_id 9 for calling a global function with example usage: to_ascii(data) and returns: only_ascii