French
crème brûlée naïve résumé
creme brulee naive resume
Remove Accents
Convert café to cafe and naïve to naive by stripping diacritics—useful for ASCII-only systems, search indexes, and slug prep.
Remove Accents
Strip diacritics with slug, filename, and ASCII output options plus live accent stats.
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Paste or type text containing accented letters to normalize.
French, Spanish, German, Romanian, and more
Plain, slug, or ASCII-safe text
Your text stays in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Example
Multilingual text → Normalized output
Spanish
mañana niño corazón
manana nino corazon
German
München Straße
Munchen Strasse
Romanian
Ștefan Țară România
Stefan Tara Romania
Portuguese
ação informação
acao informacao
Turkish
İstanbul şehir
Istanbul sehir
Czech
český řeka
cesky reka
Hungarian
árvíztűrő
arvizturo
Swedish
Göteborg
Goteborg
Danish / Norwegian
Øresund
Oresund
How to Use
- Paste text with accented Latin characters from any supported language.
- Choose options — preserve case, slug-friendly output, filename-safe mode, or ASCII-only.
- Review the Top Accented Characters card and live stats for accent frequency.
- Copy normalized text for the Slug Generator, databases, or search indexing workflows.
Common Use Cases
Slug generation
Create URL-safe slugs before or instead of the Slug Generator.
CSV imports
Normalize multilingual names and addresses from spreadsheet exports.
Legacy databases
Convert Unicode text for systems that only accept ASCII characters.
File names
Use filename-safe mode for cross-platform document and asset naming.
Search indexing
Build accent-insensitive indexes for product and content search.
SEO URLs
Strip diacritics from page titles for clean permalink structures.
AI preprocessing
Normalize corpora before tokenization with the Plain Text Converter.
Product catalogs
Standardize accented product names across e-commerce feeds.
Languages Supported
Latin-script languages with diacritics are supported via Unicode normalization. This is not translation — meaning stays the same.
French
crème, naïve, résumé
Spanish
mañana, niño, corazón
German
München, Straße
Romanian
Ștefan, Țară
Portuguese
ação, informação
Italian
città, perché
Turkish
İstanbul, şehir
Polish
Łódź, źdźbło
Czech
český, řeka
Hungarian
árvíztűrő, köszönöm
Swedish
Göteborg, Malmö
Danish / Norwegian
Øresund, Ålesund
Accent Types Explained
Acute accent
é → e
Grave accent
è → e
Circumflex
ê → e
Umlaut
ü → u
Cedilla
ç → c
Tilde
ñ → n
Comma below
ș → s
Before and After Examples
| Language | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| French | crème brûlée | creme brulee |
| Spanish | niño | nino |
| German | München | Munchen |
| Romanian | Ștefan | Stefan |
| Portuguese | ação | acao |
| Polish | Łódź | Lodz |
| Turkish | İstanbul | Istanbul |
| Hungarian | árvíztűrő | arvizturo |
| Swedish | Göteborg | Goteborg |
| Danish / Norwegian | Øresund | Oresund |
Why Remove Accents?
Search compatibility
Match queries regardless of diacritic input from users.
SEO slugs
Build clean permalinks from accented page titles.
Filename safety
Avoid OS errors from accented characters in file paths.
Legacy systems
Feed ASCII-only data into older software and mainframes.
Databases
Normalize imports before deduplication and matching.
ASCII-only exports
Prepare text for systems that reject Unicode entirely.
Special Cases
German ß
Straße
Strasse
Ligatures
æ → ae, œ → oe
Emoji
😊 unchanged
Numbers
123 unchanged
Mixed text
café123
cafe123
Ligatures and Special Letters
| Character | Result | Example |
|---|---|---|
æ | ae | encyclopædia → encyclopaedia |
œ | oe | cœur → coeur |
ß | ss | Straße → Strasse |
ø | o | Øresund → Oresund |
đ | d | Đorđe → Dorde |
SEO Slug Workflow
Normalize accented titles first, then pass the result to the Slug Generator for permalink-ready output.
Search Compatibility
Search engines
café
cafe
Databases
José
Jose
Product catalogs
piñata
pinata
File systems
résumé.pdf
resume.pdf
URL & Slug Examples
Title
Crème Brûlée Recipe
Slug
creme-brulee-recipe
Filename
résumé.pdf
resume.pdf
Chain with Remove Punctuation and Remove Extra Spaces for fully normalized preprocessing.
Notes & Limitations
- This is not translation — only diacritics are removed; language and meaning stay the same.
- Emoji are preserved and pass through unchanged.
- Numbers are preserved when the keep numbers option is enabled.
- Non-Latin scripts (Cyrillic, Arabic, CJK) are not transliterated.
- All processing happens locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Popular Workflows
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this translation?
No. Only accent marks and diacritics are removed. Words stay in the same language — crème becomes creme, not a different word.
What about German ß?
The eszett ß is converted to ss — for example, Straße becomes Strasse.
Are emoji affected?
No. Emoji pass through unchanged during accent normalization.
Can accents be restored?
No. Diacritic information is lost during normalization. Keep an original copy before processing.
Do numbers stay unchanged?
Yes, when keep numbers is enabled (default). Disable it to strip digits in slug or ASCII modes.
Can I create SEO slugs?
Yes. Enable slug-friendly text or use the Slug Generator after normalization.
Does this work for Romanian?
Yes. Comma-below characters like ș, ț, and circumflex letters in Romanian are supported.
Are ligatures like æ and œ converted?
Yes. Ligatures expand to two letters — æ → ae, œ → oe — and German ß becomes ss.
What about Polish letters?
Polish diacritics including ł, ś, ź, and ż are normalized to base Latin letters.
Does this remove Turkish dotted İ?
Yes. Turkish dotted capital İ normalizes to I, and characters like ş and ğ strip to their base letters — for example, İstanbul → Istanbul.
Can I use this before creating URL slugs?
Yes. Remove accents first, then paste the output into the Slug Generator or enable slug-friendly mode for hyphenated ASCII slugs.
Will filenames become safer?
Yes. Filename-safe mode strips invalid path characters and replaces spaces with hyphens.
Are URLs affected?
Only if you process URL text directly. Use slug-friendly mode for permalink paths, not full URLs with protocols.
Is my text uploaded?
No. All accent normalization runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript.