Javascript removing accents

Question

I want to use Evan Elliott\'s code (below) to remove accents in strings but its returns an \"a\" instead of the respective vanilla version of each character. I declare

Answer 1

This function may be useful for what you need:

function removeAccents (text) {
    var accents    = 'ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÒÓÔÕÕÖØòóôõöøÈÉÊËèéêëðÇçÐÌÍÎÏìíîïÙÚÛÜùúûüÑñŠšŸÿýŽž',
        accentsOut = "AAAAAAaaaaaaOOOOOOOooooooEEEEeeeeeCcDIIIIiiiiUUUUuuuuNnSsYyyZz",
        textNoAccents = [];

    for (var i in text) { 
        var idx = accents.indexOf(text[i]);
        if (idx != -1)
            textNoAccents[i] = accentsOut.substr(idx, 1);
        else
            textNoAccents[i] = text[i];
    }

    return textNoAccents.join('');
}