Easy way to remove accents from a Unicode string? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Maybe the easiest and safest way is using StringUtils from Apache Commons Lang

StringUtils.stripAccents(String input)

Removes diacritics (~= accents) from a string. The case will not be altered. For instance, 'à' will be replaced by 'a'. Note that ligatures will be left as is.

StringUtils.stripAccents()