diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index d9b40f4c73..5e42048992 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Changelog
  * Add `register_snippet_listing_buttons` and `construct_snippet_listing_buttons` hooks and documentation (Karl Hobley. Sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation)
  * Add `wagtail --version` to available Wagtail CLI commands (Kalob Taulien)
  * Add `hooks.register_temporarily` utility function for testing hooks (Karl Hobley. Sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation)
+ * Remove unidecode and use anyascii in for Unicode to ASCII conversion (Robbie Mackay)
  * Fix: Make page-level actions accessible to keyboard users in page listing tables (Jesse Menn)
  * Fix: `WAGTAILFRONTENDCACHE_LANGUAGES` was being interpreted incorrectly. It now accepts a list of strings, as documented (Karl Hobley)
  * Fix: Update oEmbed endpoints to use https where available (Matt Westcott)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index 4c14fd4e9f..ee83795b10 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ Contributors
 * Steven Wood
 * Gabriel Peracio
 * Jesse Menn
+* Robbie Mackay
 
 Translators
 ===========
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.11.rst b/docs/releases/2.11.rst
index 5910db9625..2a4888a8a0 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.11.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/2.11.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Other features
  * Add ``register_snippet_listing_buttons`` and ``construct_snippet_listing_buttons`` hooks and documentation (Karl Hobley. Sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation)
  * Add ``wagtail --version`` to available Wagtail CLI commands (Kalob Taulien)
  * Add ``hooks.register_temporarily`` utility function for testing hooks (Karl Hobley. Sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation)
+ * Remove unidecode and use anyascii in for Unicode to ASCII conversion (Robbie Mackay)
 
 
 Bug fixes
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0398eb7cdc..4ae58a6499 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,12 +31,16 @@ install_requires = [
     "Pillow>=4.0.0,<8.0.0",
     "beautifulsoup4>=4.8,<4.9",
     "html5lib>=0.999,<2",
+    # RemovedInWagtail212Warning: unidecode is only used by _migrate_legacy_clean_name in wagtail.contrib.forms
+    # and will be made a non-default dependency once enough time has passed from the 2.10 release to allow old
+    # data to be migrated.
     "Unidecode>=0.04.14,<2.0",
     "Willow>=1.4,<1.5",
     "requests>=2.11.1,<3.0",
     "l18n>=2018.5",
     "xlsxwriter>=1.2.8,<2.0",
     "tablib[xls,xlsx]>=0.14.0",
+    "anyascii>=0.1.5",
 ]
 
 # Testing dependencies
diff --git a/wagtail/core/tests/test_utils.py b/wagtail/core/tests/test_utils.py
index 630ade2b75..2cf185beb2 100644
--- a/wagtail/core/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/wagtail/core/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ class TestStringToAscii(TestCase):
     def test_string_to_ascii(self):
         test_cases = [
             (u'30 \U0001d5c4\U0001d5c6/\U0001d5c1', '30 km/h'),
-            (u'\u5317\u4EB0', 'Bei Jing '),
+            (u'\u5317\u4EB0', 'BeiJing'),
             ('ぁ あ ぃ い ぅ う ぇ', 'a a i i u u e'),
-            ('Ա Բ Գ Դ Ե Զ Է Ը Թ Ժ Ի Լ Խ Ծ Կ Հ Ձ Ղ Ճ Մ Յ Ն', 'A B G D E Z E E T` Zh I L Kh Ts K H Dz Gh Ch M Y N'),
+            ('Ա Բ Գ Դ Ե Զ Է Ը Թ Ժ Ի Լ Խ Ծ Կ Հ Ձ Ղ Ճ Մ Յ Ն', 'A B G D E Z E Y T\' Zh I L Kh Ts K H Dz Gh Ch M Y N'),
             ('Спорт!', 'Sport!'),
             ('Straßenbahn', 'Strassenbahn'),
             ('Hello world', 'Hello world'),
             ('Ā ā Ă ă Ą ą Ć ć Ĉ ĉ Ċ ċ Č č Ď ď Đ', 'A a A a A a C c C c C c C c D d D'),
-            ('〔山脈〕', '[Shan Mo ] '),
+            ('〔山脈〕', '[ShanMai]'),
         ]
 
         for (original, expected_result) in test_cases:
diff --git a/wagtail/core/utils.py b/wagtail/core/utils.py
index d0227b05e3..125a56469d 100644
--- a/wagtail/core/utils.py
+++ b/wagtail/core/utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import inspect
 import re
 import unicodedata
+from anyascii import anyascii
 
 from django.apps import apps
 from django.conf import settings
@@ -8,8 +9,6 @@ from django.db.models import Model
 from django.utils.encoding import force_str
 from django.utils.text import slugify
 
-from unidecode import unidecode
-
 WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH = getattr(settings, 'WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH', True)
 
 
@@ -21,11 +20,9 @@ def camelcase_to_underscore(str):
 def string_to_ascii(value):
     """
     Convert a string to ascii.
-    Note: Conversion relies on unidecode, to be replaced in a future release.
-    Important: Consider AbstractFormField _migrate_legacy_clean_name before replcaing unidecode.
     """
 
-    return str(unidecode(value))
+    return str(anyascii(value))
 
 
 def get_model_string(model):