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>It converts, for example, über to uber.

What does it convert 'ぬびばざべ' into?

ICU transliterator is fairly sophisticated (and configurable), actually. Take a look at the examples:

  キャンパス -> kyanpasu
  Αλφαβητικός Κατάλογος -> Alphabētikós Katálogos
  биологическом -> biologichyeskom

From: http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/general

Edit: reread, OP was talking about Django transliteration, which is much simpler.

Yes, Django slugifier turns ぬびばざべ to an empty text. Maybe that's because my language is set to tr-tr, I am not sure. One possible downside with icu is that, afaik, you can't run it in Google App Engine.

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