Seems too easily defeated?
echo "a string with funny unicode spaces" | iconv -f utf8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT
Though for languages that cannot be represented as ascii, such as Japanese as they paper is discussing, it's perhaps less trivial.
echo "a string with funny unicode spaces" | iconv -f utf8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT
Though for languages that cannot be represented as ascii, such as Japanese as they paper is discussing, it's perhaps less trivial.