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

My take, for removing all accents and special characters. I've mixed Lewis Diamond's elegant accent removal method with the community wiki's fast character replace for the rest of the characters. The result is an Ascii string.

function convertToAscii(string) {
    const unicodeToAsciiMap = {'Ⱥ':'A','Æ':'AE','Ꜻ':'AV','Ɓ':'B','Ƀ':'B','Ƃ':'B','Ƈ':'C','Ȼ':'C','Ɗ':'D','Dz':'D','Dž':'D','Đ':'D','Ƌ':'D','DŽ':'DZ','Ɇ':'E','Ꝫ':'ET','Ƒ':'F','Ɠ':'G','Ǥ':'G','Ⱨ':'H','Ħ':'H','Ɨ':'I','Ꝺ':'D','Ꝼ':'F','Ᵹ':'G','Ꞃ':'R','Ꞅ':'S','Ꞇ':'T','Ꝭ':'IS','Ɉ':'J','Ⱪ':'K','Ꝃ':'K','Ƙ':'K','Ꝁ':'K','Ꝅ':'K','Ƚ':'L','Ⱡ':'L','Ꝉ':'L','Ŀ':'L','Ɫ':'L','Lj':'L','Ł':'L','Ɱ':'M','Ɲ':'N','Ƞ':'N','Nj':'N','Ꝋ':'O','Ꝍ':'O','Ɵ':'O','Ø':'O','Ƣ':'OI','Ɛ':'E','Ɔ':'O','Ȣ':'OU','Ꝓ':'P','Ƥ':'P','Ꝕ':'P','Ᵽ':'P','Ꝑ':'P','Ꝙ':'Q','Ꝗ':'Q','Ɍ':'R','Ɽ':'R','Ꜿ':'C','Ǝ':'E','Ⱦ':'T','Ƭ':'T','Ʈ':'T','Ŧ':'T','Ɐ':'A','Ꞁ':'L','Ɯ':'M','Ʌ':'V','Ꝟ':'V','Ʋ':'V','Ⱳ':'W','Ƴ':'Y','Ỿ':'Y','Ɏ':'Y','Ⱬ':'Z','Ȥ':'Z','Ƶ':'Z','Œ':'OE','ᴀ':'A','ᴁ':'AE','ʙ':'B','ᴃ':'B','ᴄ':'C','ᴅ':'D','ᴇ':'E','ꜰ':'F','ɢ':'G','ʛ':'G','ʜ':'H','ɪ':'I','ʁ':'R','ᴊ':'J','ᴋ':'K','ʟ':'L','ᴌ':'L','ᴍ':'M','ɴ':'N','ᴏ':'O','ɶ':'OE','ᴐ':'O','ᴕ':'OU','ᴘ':'P','ʀ':'R','ᴎ':'N','ᴙ':'R','ꜱ':'S','ᴛ':'T','ⱻ':'E','ᴚ':'R','ᴜ':'U','ᴠ':'V','ᴡ':'W','ʏ':'Y','ᴢ':'Z','ᶏ':'a','ẚ':'a','ⱥ':'a','æ':'ae','ꜻ':'av','ɓ':'b','ᵬ':'b','ᶀ':'b','ƀ':'b','ƃ':'b','ɵ':'o','ɕ':'c','ƈ':'c','ȼ':'c','ȡ':'d','ɗ':'d','ᶑ':'d','ᵭ':'d','ᶁ':'d','đ':'d','ɖ':'d','ƌ':'d','ı':'i','ȷ':'j','ɟ':'j','ʄ':'j','dž':'dz','ⱸ':'e','ᶒ':'e','ɇ':'e','ꝫ':'et','ƒ':'f','ᵮ':'f','ᶂ':'f','ɠ':'g','ᶃ':'g','ǥ':'g','ⱨ':'h','ɦ':'h','ħ':'h','ƕ':'hv','ᶖ':'i','ɨ':'i','ꝺ':'d','ꝼ':'f','ᵹ':'g','ꞃ':'r','ꞅ':'s','ꞇ':'t','ꝭ':'is','ʝ':'j','ɉ':'j','ⱪ':'k','ꝃ':'k','ƙ':'k','ᶄ':'k','ꝁ':'k','ꝅ':'k','ƚ':'l','ɬ':'l','ȴ':'l','ⱡ':'l','ꝉ':'l','ŀ':'l','ɫ':'l','ᶅ':'l','ɭ':'l','ł':'l','ſ':'s','ẜ':'s','ẝ':'s','ɱ':'m','ᵯ':'m','ᶆ':'m','ȵ':'n','ɲ':'n','ƞ':'n','ᵰ':'n','ᶇ':'n','ɳ':'n','ꝋ':'o','ꝍ':'o','ⱺ':'o','ø':'o','ƣ':'oi','ɛ':'e','ᶓ':'e','ɔ':'o','ᶗ':'o','ȣ':'ou','ꝓ':'p','ƥ':'p','ᵱ':'p','ᶈ':'p','ꝕ':'p','ᵽ':'p','ꝑ':'p','ꝙ':'q','ʠ':'q','ɋ':'q','ꝗ':'q','ɾ':'r','ᵳ':'r','ɼ':'r','ᵲ':'r','ᶉ':'r','ɍ':'r','ɽ':'r','ↄ':'c','ꜿ':'c','ɘ':'e','ɿ':'r','ʂ':'s','ᵴ':'s','ᶊ':'s','ȿ':'s','ɡ':'g','ᴑ':'o','ᴓ':'o','ᴝ':'u','ȶ':'t','ⱦ':'t','ƭ':'t','ᵵ':'t','ƫ':'t','ʈ':'t','ŧ':'t','ᵺ':'th','ɐ':'a','ᴂ':'ae','ǝ':'e','ᵷ':'g','ɥ':'h','ʮ':'h','ʯ':'h','ᴉ':'i','ʞ':'k','ꞁ':'l','ɯ':'m','ɰ':'m','ᴔ':'oe','ɹ':'r','ɻ':'r','ɺ':'r','ⱹ':'r','ʇ':'t','ʌ':'v','ʍ':'w','ʎ':'y','ᶙ':'u','ᵫ':'ue','ꝸ':'um','ⱴ':'v','ꝟ':'v','ʋ':'v','ᶌ':'v','ⱱ':'v','ⱳ':'w','ᶍ':'x','ƴ':'y','ỿ':'y','ɏ':'y','ʑ':'z','ⱬ':'z','ȥ':'z','ᵶ':'z','ᶎ':'z','ʐ':'z','ƶ':'z','ɀ':'z','œ':'oe','ₓ':'x'};
    const stringWithoutAccents = string.normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, '');
    return stringWithoutAccents.replace(/[^\u0000-\u007E]/g, character => unicodeToAsciiMap[character] || '');
}