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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