Remove Accents / Diacritics Privacy: All processing runs locally
Strip accents and diacritical marks from characters, converting them to their plain ASCII equivalents.
How It Works
The Remove Accents tool strips diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, tildes, cedillas, and similar marks) from characters, converting them to their closest plain ASCII equivalents. For example, "cafe" becomes "cafe", "uber" becomes "uber", and "nino" becomes "nino".
Under the hood, the tool uses Unicode normalization. It decomposes each character into its base letter and combining diacritical mark using NFD (Canonical Decomposition), then removes all characters in the Unicode combining diacritical marks range (U+0300 to U+036F). This approach handles virtually every accented Latin character correctly.
This technique is commonly used for:
- URL slug generation — creating clean, ASCII-only URLs from titles in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages
- Search normalization — making text searchable without requiring accent-exact matches
- File naming — producing filenames that are compatible across all operating systems and file systems
- Data cleaning — standardizing text data for import, export, or comparison
- ASCII compatibility — converting text for systems that only support basic ASCII characters
The tool handles characters from all Latin-based scripts including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, Czech, Polish, and many more. All processing happens entirely in your browser.