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✒️ Accent Remover

Remove accents and diacritics from text — café becomes cafe — for URLs, data and code.

About this Accent Remover

Accented letters break URLs, filenames, spreadsheets and older software. This tool converts text like 'crème brûlée' into plain ASCII 'creme brulee' by splitting each letter from its accent marks and deleting the marks. Special letters that don't decompose — like æ, ø and ß — are mapped to their common ASCII spellings (ae, o, ss).

How to use it

  1. Paste your accented text into the box.
  2. Click Remove accents.
  3. Check the plain-ASCII result and the number of marks removed.
  4. Click Copy result to use it anywhere.

Example

'Señor Zürich ate a crème brûlée' becomes 'Senor Zurich ate a creme brulee'.

Frequently asked questions

Which languages does it handle?

Any language written with Latin letters and combining accents — French, Spanish, German, Turkish, Vietnamese and more. Non-Latin scripts (Arabic, Chinese, Urdu) are left unchanged.

Does it change the meaning of words?

It can: in some languages accents distinguish words. Use the plain version for systems and URLs, and keep the accented original for display text.

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