Diacritics are marks added to letters (such as ´, ˇ, ¨) that change pronunciation. This free online tool instantly strips diacritics from your text and replaces over 100 characters with their plain ASCII equivalents. Useful for URL slugs, legacy databases, SMS gateways and any system that doesn't fully support Unicode.
A naïve café résumé — façade, jalapeño, déjà vu. A naive cafe resume — facade, jalapeno, deja vu.
Diacritics are marks added to letters that change pronunciation or meaning — examples include the acute (é), grave (è), circumflex (â), umlaut (ü), caron (š), and tilde (ñ). Languages across Europe rely on diacritics to distinguish words and sounds.
The tool covers over 100 characters across multiple Central European languages, including Slovak, Czech, German, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian. It also handles many common Western European accented letters.
Yes, the tool is completely free, with no signup, no limits, and no usage caps.
No. Text is processed entirely in your browser and is never sent to any server or third party. Nothing is stored.
In Excel you can chain SUBSTITUTE() calls for every accented character, but it gets tedious. It's usually faster to copy the column into this tool, click "Remove diacritics", and paste the result back.
Yes. The conversion runs entirely in your browser, so once the page has loaded it keeps working with no internet connection — no text is ever sent to a server. You only need a connection for the initial page load, and the page is very lightweight.