Merge pull request #1260 from danielesreis/add/remove-accents

Add removeAccents

snippets/removeAccents.md

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+---
+title: removeAccents
+tags: string,beginner
+---
+
+Removes accents from strings.
+
+- Use `String.prototype.normalize()` to convert the string to a normalized Unicode format.
+- Use `String.prototype.replace()` to replace diacritical marks in the given Unicode range by empty strings.
+
+```js
+const removeAccents = str => str.normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "");
+```
+
+```js
+removeAccents('Antoine de Saint-Exupéry'); // 'Antoine de Saint-Exupery'
+```