Remove Accents
Replace accented Latin letters with their plain ASCII equivalents — é becomes e, ñ becomes n, ł becomes l, ß becomes ss — while leaving everything else untouched. Useful for ASCII-only fields, filenames and search keys.
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Frequently asked
Which accents are covered?
The whole Latin-1 and Latin Extended-A range, in both cases: French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Nordic, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish and Baltic letters. Ligatures expand rather than collapse — æ becomes ae, œ becomes oe, ß becomes ss, þ becomes th.
Does it work on decomposed text?
Yes. A letter written as 'e' plus a separate accent mark gives the same result as the single precomposed character.
Does it change unrelated characters?
No. Non-Latin scripts have no ASCII equivalent, so Cyrillic, Greek and CJK pass through unchanged rather than being deleted or guessed at.