Remove accents from text

Replace accented letters with plain ones, or drop non-ASCII characters.

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Remove accents from text: what it does

Strip diacritics so “café” becomes “cafe” and “Zürich” becomes “Zurich”. It is handy for file names, search keys and systems that only accept plain letters. The second tool goes further and deletes every character outside basic ASCII.

Remove accents from text: how to use it

Paste your text.
Choose Remove accents, or Remove non-ASCII to delete all special characters.
Select Apply and copy the result.

Remove accents from text: when to use it

Create file names, usernames or search keys that must contain plain letters only.
Prepare a list of names for a system that rejects accented characters.
Compare two lists where one was typed with accents and the other without.

Remove accents from text: examples

Strip accents

Input

Crème brûlée à Zürich

Result

Creme brulee a Zurich

Clean a list of names

Input

José Álvarez
François Müller
Zoë Łukasz

Result

Jose Alvarez
Francois Muller
Zoe Łukasz

Remove accents from text: questions and answers

What is the difference between the two tools?

Remove accents keeps the base letter (é becomes e). Remove non-ASCII deletes the whole character, including symbols and other alphabets.

Does it change letters like ß or ø?

Letters that have no accented form, such as ø or ß, are not decomposed and stay unchanged by Remove accents.

Does it keep capital letters?

Yes. “É” becomes “E” and “é” becomes “e”; only the accent is removed.

What happens to emoji and symbols with Remove non-ASCII?

They are deleted, like every character outside the basic ASCII range, including typographic quotes and dashes.

Is my text sent to a server?

No. Everything runs in your browser on your own device, so your text never leaves it.

Tools people often use together with this one.

Remove punctuation
Delete punctuation marks, or all digits, from your text.
Remove emojis from text
Strip emoji and pictographs, keep the words.
URL slug generator
Turn any title into a clean, lowercase URL slug.
Straighten curly quotes
Replace smart quotes with plain straight quotes.
Case converter
Change text to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case and more.
camelCase, snake_case and kebab-case converter
Convert text to camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case and more.
Unicode escape and unescape
Turn non-ASCII characters into \u escapes, or back.

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