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Remove Accents From Text: Strip Letter Accents

Use this free tool to remove accents from text. It turns letters like é, ü, ñ and ç into plain e, u, n and c, and handles special letters such as ß, æ and ø. Paste your text and copy the clean version.

By Debmedia Technologies LLP · Kolkata, India · Updated

Why Remove Accents From Text?

To remove accents from text means to turn letters such as é, ü and ñ into the plain letters e, u and n. Accents are an important part of many languages, but a lot of systems cannot handle them: old databases, file systems, some URLs, user names and search fields. Stripping them gives you a safe, simple version of the same words.

This tool can remove accents from text in any Latin alphabet in one click. It also handles special letters, such as the German ß, the Danish and Norwegian ø and the ligature æ.

How to Use This Tool

  1. Paste your text into the box.
  2. Press Remove accents.
  3. Check the result and the count of changed letters.
  4. Copy the clean text with the Copy button.

What Changes and What Does Not

OriginalResultNote
é è ê ëe e e eAcute, grave, circumflex and diaeresis.
ñ ç ã õn c a oTilde and cedilla.
ü ö äu o aGerman umlauts, stripped to the base letter.
ßssReplaced by two letters.
æ œ øae oe oSpecial letters and ligatures.
Ł ł Đ đL l D dPolish and Croatian letters.

The tool uses the standard decomposition described in the Unicode normalization forms standard: it splits each letter into a base letter and a mark, then removes the marks.

Common Uses

  • URLs and slugs. Make clean web addresses from titles in other languages.
  • File names. Avoid trouble when files travel between systems.
  • Search and matching. Compare names without worrying about accents.
  • Old software. Feed text to programs that only accept basic characters.

Things to Keep in Mind

Removing accents can change the meaning of a word. In Spanish, año means year and ano means something else, so use the result for technical needs and not for text that people will read. The tool works on Latin letters only. Scripts such as Arabic, Hindi, Greek, Cyrillic and Chinese stay as they are, because they do not use accent marks in the same way. The conversion cannot be undone, so keep your original.

To change the case of the cleaned text, use the text case converter. To turn it into a web-friendly string, combine it with find and replace to swap spaces for hyphens. For checking which characters your text contains, try the UTF-8 encoder and decoder. Everything runs in your browser.

Make Text Safe for Any System

Many forms, file systems and older programs reject accented letters, and some turn them into question marks. Run your names, titles and addresses through the accent remover first, and they will pass anywhere. It is also a common step when you build clean web addresses from headlines written in languages such as French, Spanish, German, Portuguese or Turkish.

Frequently Asked Questions

Plain letters are needed for web addresses, file names, user names and older systems that cannot handle accented characters. They also help in searching, where people often type without accents.
It splits each accented letter into the plain letter and its accent mark, which is a standard Unicode step, and then drops the marks. A short extra list handles letters like ß and ø that are not built that way.
No. It only works on Latin letters with accent marks. Text in Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Greek or Cyrillic stays as it is.
No. Once the accents are gone, the tool cannot tell whether a plain e was once é. Keep your original text if you need it.

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