"""Slug generation for artists, tags, and paths."""

import re
import unicodedata

_SLUG_RE = re.compile(r"[^a-z0-9]+")


def slugify(value: str) -> str:
    """Lowercase ASCII slug. Empty input becomes 'untitled'.

    Examples:
        slugify("Bob Ross") -> "bob-ross"
        slugify("hello, world!") -> "hello-world"
        slugify("naïve café") -> "naive-cafe"
    """
    if not value:
        return "untitled"
    normalized = unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", value).encode("ascii", "ignore").decode()
    normalized = normalized.lower()
    slug = _SLUG_RE.sub("-", normalized).strip("-")
    return slug or "untitled"