Takes a string as param, and convert all turkish (non-ascii) chars to ascii.

convert_to_ascii

def get_ascii_name(name):
    """ returns a non-ascii -turkish- string to ascii one """
    name = name.lower()
    map = {u"ı": "i",
           u"ğ": "g",
           u"ç": "c",
           u"ü": "u",
           u"ö": "o",
           u"ş": "s"}
    uname = []
    for l in list(name):
        for k, v in map.iteritems():
            if l == k:
                l = v
        uname.append(l)
    return ''.join(uname)
    
## example usage and output

print get_ascii_name("tasarım")

## output: "tasarim"

print get_ascii_name("üşğçı")

## output: "usgci"