Why Use This Tool?
Accented characters break URLs, usernames, legacy databases, and search indexes. This tool strips diacritics the standards-compliant way — Unicode normalization — so café becomes cafe and naïve becomes naive, while special characters like ß, æ, and ø get sensible manual mappings.
The result is clean ASCII: safe for slugs, filenames, and any system built before the world agreed on Unicode.
How It Works
- Paste the accented text.
- Click strip accents.
- Copy the clean ASCII result.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I remove accents from text?
Paste the text and click strip accents. The tool applies Unicode NFD decomposition, which separates each accented letter into base letter plus combining mark, then removes the marks.
What happens to ß, æ, and ø?
These have no decomposable form, so they get manual mappings: ß becomes ss, æ becomes ae, ø becomes o — the substitutions people actually expect in slugs and usernames.
Will it work for any language?
Latin-script languages (French, Spanish, German, Vietnamese, Polish…) convert cleanly. Non-Latin scripts like Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, and Arabic have no 'accent-free' form and pass through unchanged.
Tips & Things to Watch
- Perfect for generating URL slugs — pair with the case converter for all-lowercase slugs.
- NFD decomposition is the same method most programming languages use internally.
- Names lose their marks (Beyoncé → Beyonce) — that's usually the point.