diff --git a/pelican/utils.py b/pelican/utils.py
index f0f742db..53e6e52b 100644
--- a/pelican/utils.py
+++ b/pelican/utils.py
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ def slugify(value):
     value = Markup(value).striptags()
     if type(value) == unicode:
         import unicodedata
+        from unidecode import unidecode
+        value = unicode(unidecode(value))
         value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
     value = unicode(re.sub('[^\w\s-]', '', value).strip().lower())
     return re.sub('[-\s]+', '-', value)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1603746e..b48757d6 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 from setuptools import setup
 
-requires = ['feedgenerator', 'jinja2 >= 2.4', 'pygments', 'docutils', 'pytz', 'blinker']
+requires = ['feedgenerator', 'jinja2 >= 2.4', 'pygments', 'docutils', 'pytz', 'blinker', 'unidecode']
 
 try:
     import argparse
diff --git a/tests/test_utils.py b/tests/test_utils.py
index 2e3f714b..2ea756dc 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ class TestUtils(unittest.TestCase):
         samples = (('this is a test', 'this-is-a-test'),
                    ('this        is a test', 'this-is-a-test'),
                    (u'this → is ← a ↑ test', 'this-is-a-test'),
-                   ('this--is---a test', 'this-is-a-test'))
+                   ('this--is---a test', 'this-is-a-test'),
+                   (u'unicode測試許功蓋，你看到了嗎？', 'unicodece-shi-xu-gong-gai-ni-kan-dao-liao-ma'),
+                   (u'大飯原発４号機、１８日夜起動へ', 'da-fan-yuan-fa-4hao-ji-18ri-ye-qi-dong-he'),)
 
         for value, expected in samples:
             self.assertEquals(utils.slugify(value), expected)