Remove Diacritics from Text
Strip accent marks so letters become their plain ASCII form. Runs entirely in your browser, so your data never leaves your device.
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Output
The result appears here as you type.
How to use Remove Diacritics from Text
- 1. Paste text with accented characters. Paste text containing letters with accents, umlauts or other diacritical marks into the input pane, such as names or words borrowed from another language.
- 2. Read how each letter is deburred. The tool has no settings; every accented letter is mapped to its plain ASCII base form, so e with an acute accent becomes a plain e.
- 3. Copy the plain ASCII text. Copy the deburred text from the output pane and paste it wherever a system only accepts plain ASCII letters, such as a legacy database field or filename.
When to use Remove Diacritics from Text
Remove Diacritics from Text strips accent marks so letters become their plain ASCII form. Reach for Remove Diacritics from Text whenever a system can't handle accented characters and you need the closest plain-letter equivalent instead.
- Generating an ASCII-safe filename. A document titled with an accented name like a French or Spanish word needs to become a filename that older filesystems or upload forms can handle without encoding errors.
- Matching names in a legacy database. An older database column only stores plain ASCII, so customer names with accents need their diacritics stripped before they can be inserted or searched reliably.
- Simplifying text for a URL slug. A blog post title in a language with accented letters needs a clean, accent-free version to build a readable URL slug that avoids percent-encoded characters.
Examples
Deburr accents
Input
café naïve résumé
Output
cafe naive resume
About the Remove Diacritics from Text tool
Remove Diacritics from Text does its work locally, right in the browser. Strip accent marks so letters become their plain ASCII form. There is no upload step, no queue and no account, and your data never travels over the network.
It belongs to the Text Tools collection on EditSafely, a set of 211 small, focused Text utilities that share the same instant, private workspace.
There is nothing to configure. Provide the input and the result appears on its own. A worked example further down the page shows exactly what the tool produces for a real input.
Running locally also makes the tool fast and dependable: results appear as you type or drop a file, there is no server outage that can take it down mid-task, and confidential data can be processed without a second thought.
Frequently asked questions
Is Remove Diacritics from Text free to use?
Yes, it is completely free. All 2,658 tools on EditSafely work without an account, a subscription or usage limits.
Is it safe to paste sensitive or confidential data?
Everything happens locally. Your browser downloads the tool's code once, then does all the processing itself; nothing you enter is transmitted, stored or logged. You can even go offline after the page loads and it will still work.
How much text can I process at once?
There is no fixed limit. Because the work happens on your own device rather than on a shared server, the practical ceiling is your machine's memory, which comfortably handles inputs far larger than typical online tools allow.
Do I need to sign up or install anything?
No. The tool works in any modern browser on desktop, tablet or phone. There is no account to create, no extension to add and no software to install.
How do I use the result?
The output panel has a one-click copy button, and you can keep refining the input while you work; the result updates in place as you type.