Remove Diacritics

Remove accents from text online — Remove Diacritics

Convert accented letters to their basic ASCII equivalents quickly. Paste text and run Remove → Diacritics to get a cleaned, ASCII-friendly version suitable for systems that require plain Latin characters, URL slugs, or simplified datasets. The operation preserves case and leaves non‑Latin scripts and emoji unchanged.

How to use

• Paste your text into the editor.
• Open Remove → Diacritics and click Apply.
• The processed text replaces the editor content in place; copy the result from the editor (use the copy action) or continue with other tools.

What the tool does (behavior & details)

• Converts Latin letters with diacritics to the closest basic Latin equivalents (for example, é → e, ç → c, Ł → L).
• Handles both precomposed characters and combining diacritical marks by normalizing before conversion; combining marks are removed so letters reduce to their base form.
• Preserves original letter case (uppercase stays uppercase, lowercase stays lowercase).
• Non-Latin scripts (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, CJK, etc.) and emoji are left unchanged — the tool does not attempt transliteration for those scripts.
• The tool only removes diacritics from letters — other characters (punctuation, symbols, numbers) remain intact unless you run additional cleanup tools.

Examples

French

Before: "Voilà, the café on the façade has crème brûlée!"
After:  "Voila, the cafe on the facade has creme brulee!"

Polish

Before: "Łódź is known for its unique architecture and żurek."
After:  "Lodz is known for its unique architecture and zurek."

German (note ß mapping)

Before: "Straße"
After:  "Strasse"

Scandinavian

Before: "Smørrebrød"
After:  "Smorrebrod"

Vietnamese (multiple diacritics)

Before: "Tiếng Việt"
After:  "Tieng Viet"

Tips & workflows

• Prepare HTML content: run HTML Stripper first, then Remove → Diacritics to avoid altering markup or attributes.
• Create URL slugs: Remove → Diacritics → Case Converter → Slugify.
• Clean data for analysis: Remove → Diacritics → Remove Non-Alphanumeric Characters → Trim.
• Remove spaces and compact text after transliteration: combine with Remove Spaces if needed.

FAQ

Will the tool transliterate non-Latin scripts (Cyrillic, Greek) or emoji?

No. Non-Latin scripts and emoji are left unchanged. The tool focuses on removing diacritical marks from Latin-based alphabets and does not attempt transliteration of other writing systems.

How are special letters handled (for example ß, ø, ł)?

Common language-specific mappings are applied to produce ASCII-friendly results (for example, ß → ss, ø → o, ł → l). Combining diacritics are normalized and removed so base letters remain.

Does the tool preserve uppercase/lowercase?

Yes. The operation preserves the original case of letters. If you need a different case, run Case Converter before or after removal.

Will the tool remove all non-ASCII characters?

No. It specifically removes diacritics from Latin letters. Other non-ASCII characters (non-Latin scripts, symbols, emoji) remain. To strip non-alphanumerics, use Remove Non-Alphanumeric after removing diacritics.

Related tools

• Remove Spaces — delete all space characters.
• Remove Non-Alphanumerics — strip characters that are not letters or digits.
• Remove Punctuations — remove punctuation marks.
• Remove HTML — extract plain text from HTML before cleaning.
• Slugify — produce URL-friendly slugs after diacritics removal.