How Diacritics Removal Works
Text Cleaner normalizes Unicode characters using canonical decomposition (NFD) and strips all combining diacritical marks (\u0300–\u036f). This transforms accented letters into their base Latin equivalents (e.g. é becomes e, ñ becomes n, ç becomes c, and ř becomes r).
When to Strip Accents
- Database & Search Indexing: Normalize search queries so users can find names regardless of whether they typed accents or plain letters.
- URL Slugs & File Names: Web servers and file systems often choke on non-ASCII characters in paths.
- Legacy Systems & SMS: Sending text via standard GSM-7 SMS without paying double or triple character fees for Unicode encoding.
Completely Safe and On-Device
Your sensitive names, strings, and document drafts are processed entirely in memory in your web browser. Nothing is ever sent to a remote server.
