Fixed transliterate on Python 3

jpvanhal · Jun 15, 2013 · 1ab2e0f · 1ab2e0f
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diff --git a/inflection.py b/inflection.py
@@ -365,12 +365,13 @@ def transliterate(string):
     Examples::
 
         >>> transliterate(u'älämölö')
-        'alamolo'
+        u'alamolo'
         >>> transliterate(u'Ærøskøbing')
-        'rskbing'
+        u'rskbing'
 
     """
-    return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+    normalized = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string)
+    return normalized.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
 
 
 def underscore(word):