# Remove accents

> Remove combining diacritics from text.

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Tool ID: remove-accents. Requested language: cu. Description language: en. Complete guide translation: no; untranslated sections use English.

## Overview (en)

Remove Accents strips diacritical marks from letters, turning é into e, ñ into n and ü into u while leaving the rest of the text unchanged. It decomposes characters with Unicode normalization and deletes the combining marks. An optional compatibility setting also expands ligatures and full-width characters. Letters such as ø and ł are not transliterated.

## Supported tasks (en)

Remove combining diacritics from text.

## Steps (en)

1. Type or paste your source, or load an example.
2. Change the basic settings or open Advanced mode to fine-tune the result.
3. Review and copy or download your result. Pause Live results to run manually. Sources or individual settings above 20,000 characters require an explicit run.

## Settings

- Also normalize compatibility characters (en; key: compatibility; type: checkbox). Expands ligatures and full-width characters using NFKD. (en)

## Limitations (en)

Text operations generally accept up to 2,000,000 characters. Individual parsers, generators and formulas apply additional limits shown by their controls.

## Example input

```text
Hello world.
A second line.
Café, İstanbul, 日本語, and 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦.
```

## Privacy and connections (en)

This operation processes its source in your browser. Copy and download are explicit actions; source input is not saved in an account or history.

## Questions (en)

### Why do ø and ł stay the same after removing accents?

Those letters are separate characters, not a base letter plus a combining accent, so there is no mark to remove. The tool does not transliterate them; replace them manually or with a find-and-replace step if you need o or l.

### How do I convert ligatures like fi into normal letters?

Enable Also normalize compatibility characters in Advanced mode. It uses NFKD normalization, which expands ligatures such as fi into f and i and converts full-width letters and digits to their standard forms before accents are removed.

### Does removing accents work for languages other than French or Spanish?

It works for any text that uses combining diacritics, including Vietnamese, Czech and Polish letters such as ś or ž. Characters that have no decomposition, such as Chinese characters, pass through unchanged.

### Where is my input processed?

This operation processes its source in your browser. Copy and download are explicit actions; source input is not saved in an account or history.

### What are the input limits?

Text operations generally accept up to 2,000,000 characters. Individual parsers, generators and formulas apply additional limits shown by their controls.

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