>>> from unidecode import unidecode
>>> unidecode(u'съешь печенье и выпей чаю')
u"s'esh' pechen'e i vypei chaiu"

#-*-coding:utf-8-*-
import unicodedata
def is_syllable(letter):
	syllables = ("A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "a", "e", "i", "o", "u")
	if letter in syllables:
		return True
	return False
def is_consonant(letter):
	return not is_syllable(letter)
def romanize(letter):
	try:
		str(letter)
	except UnicodeEncodeError:
		pass
	else:
		return str(letter)
	unid = unicodedata.name(letter)
	exceptions = {"NUMERO SIGN": "No", "LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK": "\"", "RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK": "\"", "DASH": "-"}
	for name_contains in exceptions:
		if unid.find(name_contains)!=-1:
			return exceptions[name_contains]
	assert(unid.startswith("CYRILLIC"))# Not ready to romanize anything but cyrillics
	transformation_pairs = {"CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ": str.capitalize, "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ": str.lower}
	func = str.lower
	for name_contains in transformation_pairs:
		if unid.find(name_contains)!=-1:
			func = transformation_pairs[name_contains]
			unid = unid.replace(name_contains, "")
	cyrillic_exceptions = {"YERU": "y", "SHORT I": "y", "HARD SIGN": "\'", "SOFT SIGN": "\'", "BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I": "i", "GHE WITH UPTURN": "g", "UKRAINIAN IE": "ie", "YU": "yu", "YA": "ya"}
	for name_contains in cyrillic_exceptions:
		if unid.find(name_contains)!=-1:
			return cyrillic_exceptions[name_contains]
	if all(map(is_syllable, unid)):
		return func(unid)
	else:
		return func(filter(is_consonant, unid))
def translit(text):
	output = ""
	for letter in text:
		output += romanize(letter)
	return output
def main():
	text = u"русск.: Любя, съешь щипцы, — вздохнёт мэр, — кайф жгуч."
	print translit(text)
	text = u"укр.: Гей, хлопці, не вспію - на ґанку ваша файна їжа знищується бурундучком."
	print translit(text)
	text = u"болг.: Ах, чудна българска земьо, полюшквай цъфтящи жита."
	print translit(text)
	text = u"серб.: Неуредне ноћне даме досађивале су Џеку К."
	print translit(text)
	#russk.: Lyubya, s'iesh' shchiptsy, - vzdohniot mer, - kayf zhghuch.
	#ukr.: Ghiey, hloptsi, nie vspiyu - na ganku vasha fayna yzha znishchuiet'sya burunduchkom.
	#bolgh.: Ah, chudna b'lgharska ziem'o, polyushkvay ts'ftyashchi zhita.
	#sierb.: Nieuriednie notshnie damie dosadjivalie su Dzhieku K.
if __name__=="__main__":
	main()