Convert accented characters (é, ñ, ü, ç, ā, etc.) to their plain ASCII equivalents. Works with Latin, Spanish, French, German, and many other languages.
Accents (diacritics) are marks added to letters — like the acute (é), grave (è), umlaut (ü), tilde (ñ), and cedilla (ç). Removing them produces plain ASCII text suitable for URLs, file names, database identifiers, and systems that don't support Unicode.