diff --git a/snippets/removeAccents.md b/snippets/removeAccents.md
index 3766fe329..6b49ba389 100644
--- a/snippets/removeAccents.md
+++ b/snippets/removeAccents.md
@@ -5,25 +5,11 @@ tags: string,beginner
 
 Removes accents from strings.
 
-- Uses a set of known accents for all vowels.
-- Iterates through the characters, replacing the accentued ones for its unaccentuated form.
+- Converts the string to a normalized Unicode format.
+- The diacritical marks are represented by an Unicode range and are replaced by empty strings.
 
 ```js
-const removeAccents = (string) => {
-  const accents = 'ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÒÓÔÕÕÖòóôõöÈÉÊËèéêëÌÍÎÏìíîïÙÚÛÜùúûü';
-  const noAccents = 'AAAAAAaaaaaaOOOOOOoooooEEEEeeeeIIIIiiiiUUUUuuuu';
-
-  let splitted = string.split('');
-
-  splitted = splitted.map((char) => {
-    const pos = accents.indexOf(char);
-    return (pos >= 0 ? noAccents[pos] : char);
-  });
-
-  const newString = splitted.join('');
-
-  return newString;
-}
+const removeAccents = string => string.normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "")
 ```
 
 ```js