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Remove Accents
Convert accented letters to their plain forms without losing the word.
Quick Tool Overview
Remove Accents converts accented letters to their plain forms — é becomes e, ñ becomes n — rather than deleting them, so "Crème brûlée" becomes "Creme brulee" and not "Crm brle". The letters with no plain base form, such as ß, æ and ø, are mapped explicitly.
- What it does
- Converts accented letters to their plain equivalents
- You give it
- Names, titles, filenames or any accented text
- You get back
- Plain ASCII text with the words intact
- Best for
- URLs, slugs, filenames and legacy databases
About the Remove Accents
Removing accents is different from deleting them. "Crème brûlée" should become "Creme brulee", not "Crm brle" — the letters stay, only the marks come off. That is what this tool does, and it is what URLs, filenames, email addresses and older systems all require.
The conversion works by decomposing each character into its base letter plus its combining mark and then dropping the mark, which handles every accented Latin letter without needing a lookup table. The letters that have no plain form of their own are mapped by hand first: ß becomes ss, æ becomes ae, ø becomes o, ł becomes l and þ becomes th, which is where most simple converters give up and leave the character untouched.
Key features of the Remove Accents
Keeps the letter, drops the mark
Unicode decomposition means every accented Latin letter is handled without needing a lookup table.
Handles ß, æ, ø, ł and þ
These have no plain base form, so they are mapped by hand to ss, ae, o, l and th — the point where most converters give up.
Case preserved
É becomes E and é becomes e, so a name keeps its capitalisation through the conversion.
Optional ASCII enforcement
Strip anything still outside ASCII afterwards, for the systems that genuinely cannot accept it.
Works on whole documents
A single name or a full export converts the same way, with spacing and line breaks untouched.
How to use the Remove Accents
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Paste the text
Names, titles, filenames or any text with accented characters.
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Read the plain version
Each accented letter becomes its base letter, with the word intact.
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Choose how far to go
Optionally strip anything still outside ASCII, which is what a strict legacy system needs.
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Copy the result
The plain-ASCII text is ready for a URL, a filename or an old database.
Frequently asked questions
This keeps the letter and drops only the mark, so "café" becomes "cafe". Removing special characters would leave "caf". For names and words, this is almost always what you want.
They are converted to ss, ae and o. These letters are not accented forms of a base letter, so decomposition alone leaves them untouched — they are mapped explicitly instead.
It removes the accents from them, so ά becomes α, but it does not convert them to Latin letters. For that you want the Transliteration Tool.
Because a non-ASCII character in a URL has to be percent-encoded, which turns "café" into "caf%C3%A9" — ugly, harder to share, and inconsistent across systems. Plain ASCII slugs avoid all of it.
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