Remove accents/diacritics in a string in JavaScript

Question

How do I remove accentuated characters from a string? Especially in IE6, I had something like this:

accentsTidy = function(s){
    var r=s.toLowerCase();
           


        

Answer 1

You can create regex's in multiple ways. Using the new RegExp-constructor:

var re = new RegExp("[a-z]", "ig") //(string pattern, string modifiers)

Or using the regex literal notation:

var re = /[a-z]/ig; // /pattern/modifiers

You have mixed the two.