Remove Diacritics
Strip accents and diacritics so café becomes cafe.
Turn accented text into plain letters
Accents and diacritics are essential in many languages but get in the way of URLs, filenames, and ASCII-only systems. This tool strips them while leaving the base letters intact, so text stays readable.
“Café façade naïve jalapeño” becomes “Cafe facade naive jalapeno”. It handles the full range of Latin diacritics because it works through Unicode normalization rather than a fixed lookup table.
Reliable and private
It decomposes each character and discards the combining marks in your browser, so the conversion is complete and nothing you paste is uploaded.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does it remove accents?
It uses Unicode NFD normalization to split each accented letter into a base letter plus a combining mark, then drops the marks — the standard, reliable method.
When is this useful?
For creating URL slugs, ASCII-only identifiers, search keys, or filenames from names and words that contain accents.
Does it change the letters?
No — only the accents are removed. The base letters, spacing, and punctuation stay exactly as they were.
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