Remove Accents — Strip Diacritics from Text
Remove accents and diacritics from text (é → e, ñ → n), convert ß, æ, ø and ł, and normalize Unicode to NFC, NFD, NFKC or NFKD. Free and private.
🔒 Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploadedStrip accents and diacritics
Accented letters are essential in many languages, but they cause trouble in places that expect plain ASCII: file names, URLs and slugs, usernames, email addresses, database keys, legacy systems, barcode labels and search indexes that should match "cafe" when someone types "café". This tool removes diacritics from any text, turning é into e, ñ into n, ü into u, ç into c and å into a, while keeping everything else — spaces, punctuation, digits and emoji — exactly as it was.
Some letters are not accented versions of another letter as far as Unicode is concerned: German ß, Scandinavian æ and ø, Polish ł, Croatian đ, Icelandic þ and ð, and the ligature œ. With "Convert special letters" enabled they are replaced with their conventional Latin spellings (ss, ae, o, l, d, th, oe), so "Straße" becomes "Strasse" and "Łódź" becomes "Lodz".
By default only Latin letters are affected. Cyrillic letters such as й and ё are technically letters with marks too, and stripping them changes meaning, so they are left alone unless you untick "Only Latin letters". The same applies to Greek tonos accents.
Unicode normalization: NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD
The same visible text can be stored in different ways. "é" may be one code point (U+00E9) or two (e followed by a combining acute accent). They look identical but do not compare as equal, which breaks searches, deduplication and passwords. Unicode normalization fixes this by converting text to a standard form. NFC (composed) is the recommended form for the web and most files; NFD (decomposed) is used by macOS file names and some processing pipelines. The compatibility forms NFKC and NFKD go further and replace lookalike "compatibility" characters — ligatures, fullwidth letters, superscripts and circled numbers — with their plain equivalents.
Choose "Normalize only" to apply a normalization form without removing any accents. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
How to use
- Paste your textAdd names, titles, keywords or any text with accented letters.
- Choose the optionsConvert special letters such as ß and ø, and decide whether non-Latin scripts keep their marks.
- Pick a normalization formUse NFC for most purposes, or NFD, NFKC or NFKD for specific technical needs.
- Copy the resultThe status line shows how many characters were changed.