Remove accents and diacritics

Paste text to remove decomposable Latin accent marks. Your text stays in this browser; the tool does not send or store it.

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What changes, and what stays

The tool applies canonical decomposition (NFD), removes marks in U+0300 to U+036F after Latin letters (and a leading run of those marks), then recomposes the result (NFC). For example, Crème becomes Creme and ắ becomes a.

This is not transliteration. ø, ł, æ, and ß remain unchanged because they do not canonically decompose into plain A to Z letters. Other scripts and emoji, including variation selectors, are preserved. This tool targets Latin accents; it does not strip every Unicode mark.

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Strict ASCII is an explicit destructive filter, not transliteration: it deletes remaining non-ASCII scalars, including letters such as ø and text in other scripts. The original stays in the input field. Review the preservation report before copying or downloading.

  • Café déjà vu → Cafe deja vu
  • Crème brûlée → Creme brulee
  • Tiếng Việt: ắ, ệ, ỡ → Tieng Viet: a, e, o
  • Ł, ß, æ and ø → Ł, ß, æ and ø

Composed é and e followed by U+0301 produce the same result. Line breaks, punctuation, numbers and spaces stay in place. Removing accents can change a word or a name: keep the original when spelling matters.

Sources, versions and limits

Encoded properties
Properties use Unicode 17.0.0. Normalization follows UAX #15; grapheme boundaries follow UAX #29. Script associations describe encoded properties, not language use.
Language evidence
CLDR 48.2and the IANA registry dated 2026-08-08. Main and auxiliary exemplars are distinct. CLDR exemplars are not complete orthographies.
Review and limitations
The dataset is derived from the sources above. Editorial guides cite additional scoped authorities. No native or specialist orthography approval is implied. Release scope date: 14 September 2026. Historic or specialist usage needs separate evidence. Registry-only records have unknown orthography in this release.
Reproduction and corrections
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