diff --git a/docs/_docs/templates.md b/docs/_docs/templates.md
index 38e55717..81eb5b2a 100644
--- a/docs/_docs/templates.md
+++ b/docs/_docs/templates.md
@@ -293,6 +293,18 @@ you come up with your own tags via plugins.
         <p>
           <code class="output">the-_config.yml-file</code>
         </p>
+        <p>
+         <code class="filter">{% raw %}{{ "The _cönfig.yml file" | slugify: 'ascii' }}{% endraw %}</code>
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          <code class="output">the-c-nfig-yml-file</code>
+        </p>
+        <p>
+         <code class="filter">{% raw %}{{ "The cönfig.yml file" | slugify: 'latin' }}{% endraw %}</code>
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          <code class="output">the-config-yml-file</code>
+        </p>
       </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
@@ -416,6 +428,8 @@ The default is `default`. They are as follows (with what they filter):
 - `raw`: spaces
 - `default`: spaces and non-alphanumeric characters
 - `pretty`: spaces and non-alphanumeric characters except for `._~!$&'()+,;=@`
+- `ascii`: spaces, non-alphanumeric, and non-ASCII characters
+- `latin`: like `default`, except Latin characters are first transliterated (e.g. `àèïòü` to `aeiou`)
 
 ## Tags
 
diff --git a/jekyll.gemspec b/jekyll.gemspec
index 74bcd8e3..98fd5382 100644
--- a/jekyll.gemspec
+++ b/jekyll.gemspec
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.add_runtime_dependency("addressable",           "~> 2.4")
   s.add_runtime_dependency("colorator",             "~> 1.0")
+  s.add_runtime_dependency("i18n",                  "~> 0.7")
   s.add_runtime_dependency("jekyll-sass-converter", "~> 1.0")
   s.add_runtime_dependency("jekyll-watch",          "~> 1.1")
   s.add_runtime_dependency("kramdown",              "~> 1.14")
diff --git a/lib/jekyll.rb b/lib/jekyll.rb
index cdcab8bd..733796cc 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll.rb
@@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ require "safe_yaml/load"
 require "liquid"
 require "kramdown"
 require "colorator"
+require "i18n"
 
 SafeYAML::OPTIONS[:suppress_warnings] = true
+I18n.config.available_locales = :en
 
 module Jekyll
   # internal requires
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/utils.rb b/lib/jekyll/utils.rb
index 558a7586..55cf9be1 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/utils.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/utils.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module Jekyll
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ module Jekyll
     autoload :WinTZ, "jekyll/utils/win_tz"
 
     # Constants for use in #slugify
-    SLUGIFY_MODES = %w(raw default pretty ascii).freeze
+    SLUGIFY_MODES = %w(raw default pretty ascii latin).freeze
     SLUGIFY_RAW_REGEXP = Regexp.new('\\s+').freeze
     SLUGIFY_DEFAULT_REGEXP = Regexp.new("[^[:alnum:]]+").freeze
     SLUGIFY_PRETTY_REGEXP = Regexp.new("[^[:alnum:]._~!$&'()+,;=@]+").freeze
@@ -170,6 +169,10 @@ module Jekyll
     # When mode is "ascii", some everything else except ASCII characters
     # a-z (lowercase), A-Z (uppercase) and 0-9 (numbers) are not replaced with hyphen.
     #
+    # When mode is "latin", the input string is first preprocessed so that
+    # any letters with accents are replaced with the plain letter. Afterwards,
+    # it follows the "default" mode of operation.
+    #
     # If cased is true, all uppercase letters in the result string are
     # replaced with their lowercase counterparts.
     #
@@ -184,7 +187,10 @@ module Jekyll
     #   # => "The-_config.yml file"
     #
     #   slugify("The _config.yml file", "ascii")
-    #   # => "the-config.yml-file"
+    #   # => "the-config-yml-file"
+    #
+    #   slugify("The _config.yml file", "latin")
+    #   # => "the-config-yml-file"
     #
     # Returns the slugified string.
     def slugify(string, mode: nil, cased: false)
@@ -195,26 +201,10 @@ module Jekyll
         return cased ? string : string.downcase
       end
 
-      # Replace each character sequence with a hyphen
-      re =
-        case mode
-        when "raw"
-          SLUGIFY_RAW_REGEXP
-        when "default"
-          SLUGIFY_DEFAULT_REGEXP
-        when "pretty"
-          # "._~!$&'()+,;=@" is human readable (not URI-escaped) in URL
-          # and is allowed in both extN and NTFS.
-          SLUGIFY_PRETTY_REGEXP
-        when "ascii"
-          # For web servers not being able to handle Unicode, the safe
-          # method is to ditch anything else but latin letters and numeric
-          # digits.
-          SLUGIFY_ASCII_REGEXP
-        end
+      # Drop accent marks from latin characters. Everything else turns to ?
+      string = ::I18n.transliterate(string) if mode == "latin"
 
-      # Strip according to the mode
-      slug = string.gsub(re, "-")
+      slug = replace_character_sequence_with_hyphen(string, :mode => mode)
 
       # Remove leading/trailing hyphen
       slug.gsub!(%r!^\-|\-$!i, "")
@@ -337,5 +327,32 @@ module Jekyll
         target[key] = val.dup if val.frozen? && duplicable?(val)
       end
     end
+
+    # Replace each character sequence with a hyphen.
+    #
+    # See Utils#slugify for a description of the character sequence specified
+    # by each mode.
+    private
+    def replace_character_sequence_with_hyphen(string, mode: "default")
+      replaceable_char =
+        case mode
+        when "raw"
+          SLUGIFY_RAW_REGEXP
+        when "pretty"
+          # "._~!$&'()+,;=@" is human readable (not URI-escaped) in URL
+          # and is allowed in both extN and NTFS.
+          SLUGIFY_PRETTY_REGEXP
+        when "ascii"
+          # For web servers not being able to handle Unicode, the safe
+          # method is to ditch anything else but latin letters and numeric
+          # digits.
+          SLUGIFY_ASCII_REGEXP
+        else
+          SLUGIFY_DEFAULT_REGEXP
+        end
+
+      # Strip according to the mode
+      string.gsub(replaceable_char, "-")
+    end
   end
 end
diff --git a/test/test_utils.rb b/test/test_utils.rb
index 771f2ade..844ef825 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.rb
+++ b/test/test_utils.rb
@@ -207,6 +207,17 @@ class TestUtils < JekyllUnitTest
         Utils.slugify("fürtive glance!!!!", :mode => "ascii")
     end
 
+    should "map accented latin characters to ASCII characters" do
+      assert_equal "the-config-yml-file",
+        Utils.slugify("The _config.yml file?", :mode => "latin")
+      assert_equal "furtive-glance",
+        Utils.slugify("fürtive glance!!!!", :mode => "latin")
+      assert_equal "aaceeiioouu",
+        Utils.slugify("àáçèéíïòóúü", :mode => "latin")
+      assert_equal "a-z",
+        Utils.slugify("Aあわれ鬱господинZ", :mode => "latin")
+    end
+
     should "only replace whitespace if mode is raw" do
       assert_equal(
         "the-_config.yml-file?",