Remove Accents & Diacritics
Remove accents and diacritical marks from text (café → cafe, naïve → naive) while keeping the letters. Useful for slugs, filenames and search. Free, private.
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Turn accented letters into their plain forms
Accented characters cause trouble the moment text crosses a boundary that does not expect them: a username field that rejects them, a URL slug that mangles them, a legacy system that stores them as question marks. This tool converts accented and diacritical letters to their base forms, so café becomes cafe and naïve becomes naive, keeping the letter and dropping the mark.
It works letter by letter, not by guesswork
The conversion decomposes each accented character into its base letter plus the combining mark, then keeps the letter and discards the mark. That is a principled transformation rather than a lookup table of special cases, so it handles the full range of Latin accents consistently: acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut, tilde, cedilla and more all reduce to the letter underneath.
Where it belongs in a workflow
Removing accents is a normalisation step: it makes text match across systems that handle accents differently, produces clean ASCII slugs from accented titles, and prepares names for systems that cannot store diacritics. It is not about changing the language, only about flattening the representation. The conversion runs entirely in your browser.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does it turn café into cafe?
It separates each accented letter into its base letter and the accent mark, then keeps the letter and drops the mark, so the base form remains.
Which accents does it handle?
The full range of Latin diacritics: acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut, tilde, cedilla and others, all reduced to the underlying letter.
Does it change the actual letters?
No. Only the diacritical marks are removed; the base letters stay, so café becomes cafe rather than being altered further.
What is it useful for?
Creating clean ASCII slugs, matching text across systems that treat accents differently, and preparing names for systems that cannot store diacritics.
Is my text uploaded?
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser.
Privacy & Security
All processing happens locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
How to Use
Paste accented text; a plain ASCII-friendly version is produced instantly.
Disclaimer: This tool is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Results are for educational and utility purposes.
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