Accent Remover

Remove accents and diacritical marks from your text. Convert characters like a, e, n to their plain ASCII equivalents.

This tool generates fictitious data intended exclusively for software testing and development purposes. The data does not correspond to real people or entities and must not be used for illegal, fraudulent purposes, or in ways that violate the privacy of others. Compliant with LGPD (Brazilian Data Protection Law).

See also:

NIF Generator
Unit Converter
CNS Validator
RG Validator
Regex Tester
CI (Uruguay)
DNI Validator (Spain)
SIN (Canada)

About the Accent Remover

What is accent removal?

Accent removal (also called diacritics stripping) is the process of replacing accented characters with their plain ASCII equivalents. For example, characters like a-with-acute, e-with-acute, n-with-tilde, and u-with-umlaut become a, e, n, and u respectively. This is essential when working with systems that only support ASCII characters or when normalizing text for search and comparison operations.

How does it work?

The tool uses Unicode normalization (NFD decomposition) to separate base characters from their combining diacritical marks, then strips the marks away. This approach handles virtually all Latin-script accented characters including acute, grave, circumflex, tilde, umlaut, cedilla, and more. It preserves the original text structure while only removing the accent marks.

Common use cases for developers

Developers use accent removal for building search indexes that match accented and unaccented queries equally, generating URL-safe slugs from user input, normalizing data before database comparisons, creating ASCII-compatible usernames or file names, and preparing text for systems with limited character set support such as legacy APIs or SMS gateways.