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

This did it for me. JavaScript, Google Apps Scripts, GAS

function normalizetext(text) {
  var weird = 'öüóőúéáàűíÖÜÓŐÚÉÁÀŰÍçÇ!@£$%^&*()_+?/*."';
var normalized = 'ouooueaauiOUOOUEAAUIcC                 ';
var idoff = -1,new_text = '';
var lentext = text.toString().length -1

for (i = 0; i <= lentext; i++) {
idoff = weird.search(text.charAt(i));
if (idoff == -1) {
new_text = new_text + text.charAt(i);
} else {
new_text = new_text + normalized.charAt(idoff);
}

}
return new_text;

}