30-seconds-of-code/snippets/removeAccents.md

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title	tags
removeAccents	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.

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;
}

removeAccents('Antoine de Saint-Exupéry'); // 'Antoine de Saint-Exupery'