Remove Accents / Diacritics
Strip diacritics while keeping the letters.
Remove Accents converts accented characters to their unaccented equivalents — café to cafe, Łódź to Lodz, Ærø to AErO — using Unicode NFD normalisation plus explicit mappings for the letters that decomposition alone does not handle, such as ø, đ, ł and ß. Conversion happens in the page — nothing is uploaded.
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How to use Remove Accents / Diacritics
- Paste your text.
- Choose whether to also transliterate non-Latin scripts.
- Copy the plain result.
Questions about Remove Accents / Diacritics
Why is NFD normalisation not enough on its own?
Because some letters are not composed of a base plus an accent. ø, đ, ł, ħ and ß are single indivisible code points, so stripping combining marks leaves them untouched. They need an explicit mapping, which this tool includes.
What happens to ß and æ?
ß becomes ss and æ becomes ae, following the conventional transliterations rather than dropping them.
When do I actually need this?
Legacy systems that reject non-ASCII, filenames that must be portable, URL slugs, and matching names across databases that store them inconsistently.
Does stripping accents change the meaning of a word?
Sometimes, and it is worth knowing. In several languages the mark is not decoration: Spanish "año" becomes "ano", Polish "łoś" becomes "los". Strip accents for machine matching and filenames, not for text people will read.
Can it handle Greek, Cyrillic or Chinese?
Their accent marks come off, but the letters are not romanised: "Ελλάδα" becomes "Ελλαδα" and "й" becomes "и", each staying in its own alphabet. Chinese, Japanese and Korean carry no diacritic to remove and are left untouched. The ASCII-only option deletes these scripts outright rather than transliterating them.
Is Remove Accents / Diacritics really free, with no limits?
Yes. There is no account, no daily cap, no file-size tier and no watermark, because there is no server cost to recover. The site is funded by clearly disclosed partner recommendations on the Partners page, never by metering the tools.
Are my files or text uploaded when I use Remove Accents / Diacritics?
No. Everything is processed by JavaScript running in your browser, on your device. You can verify it: open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and use the tool. You will see no request carrying your data — because there is nowhere for it to go.