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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def ASCII_encoding(self):
 """Returns the ASCII encoding of a string"""


        w = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', self.word).encode('ASCII',
                                                            'ignore')  # Encode into ASCII, returns a bytestring
        w = w.decode('utf-8')  # Convert back to string

        return w