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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 translate_to_ascii(values):
 r"""Transliterate the string into ascii representation. Transliterate the string contents of the given sequence into ascii representation. Returns a sequence with the modified values if the module 'unidecode' is available. Otherwise it will fall back to the inferior strip_accents function. For example: H\xc3\xb6hne becomes Hohne. Note: Passed strings are returned as a list. :param values: sequence of strings to transform :type values: sequence :return: sequence with values transformed to ascii :rtype: sequence """

    if not values and not isinstance(values, str):
        return values

    if isinstance(values, str):
        values = [values]
    for index, value in enumerate(values):
        if not value:
            continue
        unicode_text = decode_to_unicode(value)
        if u"[?]" in unicode_text:
            decoded_text = []
            for unicode_char in unicode_text:
                decoded_char = unidecode(unicode_char)
                # Skip unrecognized characters
                if decoded_char != "[?]":
                    decoded_text.append(decoded_char)
            ascii_text = ''.join(decoded_text).encode('ascii')
        else:
            ascii_text = unidecode(unicode_text).replace(
                u"[?]", u"").encode('ascii')
        values[index] = ascii_text
    return values